Rilke
Americannoun
noun
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The poet Rainer Maria Rilke wrote that “the highest form of love is to be the protector of another person’s solitude.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 11, 2026
The poet Rainer Maria Rilke once told a young writer that we shouldn’t try to eliminate uncertainty, but instead learn “to love the questions themselves.”
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2024
He reminds me of Rilke, who wrote to a young poet about how he needed to be patient, to learn the lessons of pain.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2023
Shin cites capaciously, bringing in Herman Melville, Rainer Maria Rilke and Korean burial rites.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 23, 2022
It is characteristic of the great lyric poets, of Walt Whitman, Dehmel, Carducci, Rilke, Stefan George, that at a certain height of their artistry they renounce all other than lyric forms.
From ?mile Verhaeren by Stefan Zweig
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