About Rainer Maria Rilke
René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke (4 December 1875 – 29 December 1926), known as Rainer Maria Rilke, was an Austrian poet. Acclaimed as an idiosyncratic and expressive poet, he is widely recognized as a significant writer in the German language. His work is viewed by critics and scholars...
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts, and the scenery is falling apart.
If my devils are to leave me, I am afraid my angels will take flight as well.
No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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Who knows? perhaps the same / bird echoed through both of us / yesterday, separate, in the evening . . .