Rilke

[ ril-kuh ]

/ ˈrɪl kə /

noun

Rai·ner Ma·ri·a

[rahy-nuh r mah-ree-ah] /ˈraɪ nər mɑˈri ɑ/, 1875–1926, Austrian poet, born in Prague.

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Examples from the Web for rilke

The same advice that Rodin gave to Rilke: il faut travailler—toujours travailler.
How I Write: John Banville on ‘Ancient Light,’ Nabokov, and Dublin|Noah Charney|October 3, 2012|DAILY BEAST
The lines suffer from translation; Rilke is notoriously difficult to render into English.
Ann Wroe’s ‘Orpheus’: Why the Mythological Muse Haunts Us|Ann Wroe|May 31, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Poets, from Virgil and Ovid to Mallarme and Rilke, have written his story.
Ann Wroe’s ‘Orpheus’: Why the Mythological Muse Haunts Us|Ann Wroe|May 31, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Rilke accused her of forming him like a clay pot before dropping and breaking him.
The Best of Brit Lit|Peter Stothard|September 16, 2009|DAILY BEAST

Rodin has pronounced Rilke's essay the supreme interpretation of his work.
Auguste Rodin|Rainer Maria Rilke
Rilke sees in Rodin the dominant personification in our age of the "power of servitude in all nature."
Poems|Rainer Maria Rilke
Rilke has lived deeply; he has absorbed into his artistic and spiritual consciousness many of the supreme values of our time.
Poems|Rainer Maria Rilke
Rodin became to Rilke the manifestation of the divine principle of the creative impulse in man.
Poems|Rainer Maria Rilke
The ascent toward the acme of Rilke's art after the year 1900 is as rapid as it is precipitous.
Poems|Rainer Maria Rilke

British Dictionary definitions for rilke

Rilke

/ (ˈrɪlkə) /

noun

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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