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Rilke

[ ril-kuh ]

noun

  1. Rai·ner Ma·ri·a [rahy, -n, uh, r, mah-, ree, -ah], 1875–1926, Austrian poet, born in Prague.


Rilke

/ ˈrɪlkə /

noun

  1. RilkeRainer Maria18751926MAustrianCzechWRITING: poet Rainer Maria (ˈrainər maˈriːa). 1875–1926, Austro-German poet, born in Prague. Author of intense visionary lyrics, notably in the Duino Elegies (1922) and Sonnets to Orpheus (1923)


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The same advice that Rodin gave to Rilke: il faut travailler—toujours travailler.

The lines suffer from translation; Rilke is notoriously difficult to render into English.

Poets, from Virgil and Ovid to Mallarme and Rilke, have written his story.

Rilke accused her of forming him like a clay pot before dropping and breaking him.

Rodin has pronounced Rilke's essay the supreme interpretation of his work.

The realization of this truth expressed in the medium of poetry is the significance of Rilke's Book of Hours.

In this phase of Rilke's development, the principle of renunciation constitutes a certain negative element in his philosophy.

Rilke sees in Rodin the dominant personification in our age of the "power of servitude in all nature."

Rodin became to Rilke the manifestation of the divine principle of the creative impulse in man.

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