Rilke
Americannoun
noun
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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 ● Oct. 17, 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
He reminds me of Rilke, who wrote to a young poet about how he needed to be patient, to learn the lessons of pain.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2023
Here’s one entry in its entirety, in lines Rilke or Havel or Milosz would envy:
From New York Times ● Jan. 11, 2023
Rodin became to Rilke the manifestation of the divine principle of the creative impulse in man.
From Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke
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