Reading Rilke Comments

I have been reading Rilke for 61 years and will continue to do even as I climb the Mountains of Primeval Grief he imagined in his Tenth Elegy and one of the Young Laments guides me to my fate on the other side of life. Your poem is remarkable: I truly felt I was listening to his voice as I read it - his startling intimacy, his quiet prophetic tone, his confidence in poetic language - all of these traits you created in your echoing poem. And there isn't a trace of egoism or vanity in your poem. Like Rilke's, your poem is mission.... My favorite line of Rilke is actually prose, from a letter to his Polish translator: EVERYWHERE TRANSIENCE PLUNGES INTO DEEP BEING.... I have the deepest regard for what you have written. To say THANK YOU is either inadequate or redundant, but it's also human - So Thank You, Mary!