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

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

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