ABSTRACT: From the reading of Rilke’s biography and works, the poet’s relationships with his body and with suffering as a source of poetic inspiration are here analyzed. The body becomes poetry, whilst his admirers point that, on the contrary, poetry becomes body. It is a paradox that, when he finishes his fifth elegy with which he ends his work, he allows to advance the pernicious anemia that he had caught due to his material --in any way, sought-- privations. Finally, there is an analysis of a little piece that reveals more than meaning the resonances of Lalangue in the poet and its consonances in the readers.