Rilke's Book of Hours

In 1900, a young German poet traveled to Russia, where he felt a deep connection to the spirituality that he found there. He returned home and wrote several poems about his spiritual journey—but didn't share these poems with anyone for a long time; he considered them sacred and unlike anything else he had ever written or would ever write. This poet was Rainer Maria Rilke; years later, these poems were published in English as the Book of Hours.