How to use Rilke in a sentence
One of the things the poet Rilke taught me was part of being wise is accepting you don’t have all of the answers right now — and that’s okay.
“This Didn’t End the Way It’s Supposed to End.” (Bonus) | Angela Duckworth | September 27, 2021 | FreakonomicsThe 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 | THE DAILY BEASTThe 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 | THE DAILY BEASTPoets, 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 | THE DAILY BEASTRilke 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.
Auguste Rodin | Rainer Maria RilkeThe realization of this truth expressed in the medium of poetry is the significance of Rilke's Book of Hours.
Poems | Rainer Maria RilkeIn this phase of Rilke's development, the principle of renunciation constitutes a certain negative element in his philosophy.
Poems | Rainer Maria RilkeRilke sees in Rodin the dominant personification in our age of the "power of servitude in all nature."
Poems | Rainer Maria RilkeRodin became to Rilke the manifestation of the divine principle of the creative impulse in man.
Poems | Rainer Maria Rilke
British Dictionary definitions for Rilke
/ (ˈrɪlkə) /
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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