Let This Darkness Be a Bell Tower by Rainer Maria Rilke
We\u2019ve noticed that many people have been seeking out this poem by Rilke on our website this week. It feels like a meditation and a salve for this fraught, uncertain moment in the world. So, we\u2019re sharing it here as well.\n\nRainer Maria Rilke was a Bohemian-Austrian poet and novelist. His poem, \u201cLet This Darkness Be a Bell Tower,\u201d is read here by Joanna Macy. It was translated by Joanna Macy and Anita Barrows, and originally read in the On Being episode \u201cA Wild Love for the World.\u201d Watch a film version of this poem on our YouTube channel.