Archaic Torso of Apollo Resources

Here's Rilke's profile at Poets.org.

…and here's his extensive bio at The Poetry Foundation.

In case you're wondering who Rilke hung with and who he wrote about, here's a cool collection of those connections at biography.com.

This film is watching you—creepy, but cool.

Care to study a torso? This video's for you.

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon offers his take on Rilke's poem.

And now, in German! In case you were wondering what it would sound like in the original.

We're not totally sure which torso of Apollo Rilke was looking at in the Louvre, but a lot of readers speculate that it's this one.

Here's what the young Rilke looked like—unlike the statue, including his legendary head and admittedly somewhat protuberant eye-apples.

Here's an awesome interview with poet Mark Doty about the poem, courtesy of Poets.org.

Ever wonder what's so important about different translations? Here's a cool article from The Guardian about two different translations of the poem, by the same translator.

Here's another take on translating Rilke (and the untranslatable) from Jacket magazine.

In celebration of Edward Snow's translations of Rilke that came out in 2009, the Wall Street Journal gave this brief profile of Rilke for American readers.

Here's a book the Rilke's perhaps best known for—philosophical explorations of life, addressed to a potential poet.

This well-known collection was penned by Rilke in a seaside castle.