Rilke

American  

[ril-kuh] / ˈrɪl kə /

noun

1. Rainer Maria 1875–1926, Austrian poet, born in Prague.

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Rilke British  

/ ˈrɪlkə /

noun

1. 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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Example Sentences

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

Rilke described these memories as those having “turned to blood within us, to glance and gesture, nameless and no longer to be distinguished from ourselves.”

From The Wall Street Journal

He pauses to recite poetry, be it Sufi or Rilke.

From Los Angeles Times

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

Near the end of the film, Janet discovers a poem by Rainer Maria Rilke, an excerpt from the fourth of Rilke’s mystical “Duino Elegies.”

From New York Times