Quotes from Rainer Maria Rilke's books, and about them
Necessity on Archaic Torso of Apollo: “"'You must change your life' is a quotation from Rainer Maria Rilke's 'Archaïscher Torso Apollos,' 1908," per the author's endnote; spoken in-story as "'You must change your life,' I said to Rainer in the Louvre in 1905."”
The Breast on Archaic Torso of Apollo: “"And now to conclude the hour with the poem by Rainer Maria Rilke entitled 'Archaic Torso of Apollo' written in Paris in 1908," followed by the poem quoted in full in the narrative.”
Spring on Duino Elegies: Epigraph from Rilke (citations list Duineser Elegien) (epigraph); also 'elegieen van wijlen Rilke' in text
Artful on Orpheus. Eurydice. Hermes.: “like it is in Rilke's Orpheus. Eurydice. Hermes., a poem whose title is already full of division and finality”
The Wind Has Risen on Requiem: “A small parcel had arrived: Rilke's Requiem (Chinkon-ka), ordered long ago, forwarded from place to place with two or three other books. That night, by the fireplace, listening now and then to the wind, I began to read Rilke's Requiem. [auto-translated]”