Rilke

[ ril-kuh ]

/ ˈrɪl kə /

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noun

Rai·ner Ma·ri·a

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

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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|Freakonomics
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
The realization of this truth expressed in the medium of poetry is the significance of Rilke's Book of Hours.
Poems|Rainer Maria Rilke
In this phase of Rilke's development, the principle of renunciation constitutes a certain negative element in his philosophy.
Poems|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
Rodin became to Rilke the manifestation of the divine principle of the creative impulse in man.
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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