The writer and poet on whose life's work this book is focused is a turn-of-the-century writer and thinker who inspired the author, John L. Mood with his wise and eloquent prose and sensual and insightful poetry. The major themes in his work centered around the importance of continuously learning in the subjects of love and life, and to allow for all of the phases of one's life to inform the others. Most pointedly, sex is a teacher to him about spirituality and each human's connection with the whole of humanity, and death is, according to Rilke, a fact of life to be embraced and invited to inform and lend timeless significance to every one of life's experiences. Rilke was very outspoken in his writing on the subject of female empowerment and the need for a complete change in the way men and women approach their interactions, and in those subjects, he was generations ahead of his time. He forged close friendships with psychoanalyst and author Lou Andreas-Salome, feminist Ellen Kay, sculptor Auguste Rodin, writer and philosopher Fredrick Nietzche, Sigmund Freud and several other of the most progressive thinkers of his time.
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