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
He pauses to recite poetry, be it Sufi or Rilke.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 25, 2025
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
His poetry in particular drew heavily from the European modernist tradition of Charles Baudelaire, Rainer Maria Rilke and Ezra Pound, though it remained rooted in its themes and imagery to the Piedmont South.
From New York Times • Jan. 25, 2024
It is a significant fact that Rilke dedicated this book to Gerhart Hauptmann, "in love and gratitude for his Michael Kramer."
From Poems by Rilke, Rainer Maria
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