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    Rainer Maria Rilke

    Austrian poet and writer (1875–1926)
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    René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke, known as Rainer Maria Rilke, was an Austrian poet and novelist. Acclaimed as an idiosyncratic and expressive poet, he is widely recognized as a significant writer in the German language. His work is viewed by critics and scholars as possessing undertones of mysticism, exploring themes of subjective experience and disbelief. His writings include one novel, several collections of poetry and several volumes of correspondence. Rilke traveled extensively throughout Europe, finally settling in Switzerland, which provided the inspiration for many of his poems. While Rilke is best known for his contributions to German literature, he also wrote in French. Among English-language readers, his best-known works include two poetry collections: Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus, a semi-autobiographical novel The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, and a collection of ten letters published posthumously Letters to a Young Poet. Wikipedia

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    1949 quotes from Rainer Maria Rilke: 'Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.', 'Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like ...
  4. britannica.com

    Dec 25, 2024Learn about the life and works of Rainer Maria Rilke, an Austro-German poet who became internationally famous with his lyric poems and such works as Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus. Explore his early education, his relationship with Lou Andreas-Salomé, his travels in Russia and other countries, and his legacy as one of the greatest German-language poets.
    Author:Hans Egon Holthusen
  5. poetryfoundation.org

    In her book, Rainer Maria Rilke, E. M. Butler averred that "The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge" marks a crisis in Rilke's attitude to God, a crisis which might be hailed as the loss of a delusion, or deplored as the loss of an ideal… [His concept of the] future artist-god had never been more than a sublime hypothesis, deriving from ...
  6. allpoetry.com

    Rainer Maria Rilke is considered one of the most lyrically intense German-language poets. His work spans the late 19th and early 20th centuries, bridging the gap between the traditional Romantic era and the rising tide of Modernism. Rilke's enduring appeal stems from his ability to capture the complexities of human emotion and the search for ...
  7. discoverwalks.com

    One such renowned poet was Rainer Maria Rilke, an Austrian poet born in December 4 th 1875. His father Josef Rilke was a railway official who had an unsuccessful career in the military while his mother Sophie (Phia) Entz was from a wealth family in Prague. His parents separated in 1884.

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