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  • n  German poet (born in Austria) whose imagery and mystic lyricism influenced 20th-century German literature (1875-1926)
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  • Fighting is just “Too Sweet”: Part 1 of 3
    Rainer Maria Rilke, a German poet of the 20th century, once said, “Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any complement and limit, but only life and reality: the female human being.” […] Related posts: Numerous reasons for graduate school Every May and December thousands ...
    Nov. 5, 2013 - The Prairie
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  • Robert Hass in Los Angeles Times
    If you could try to write from places as deep as from where Rilke does,Hass said now, "but situate it where we all live our lives, that would be the way to go about it. Maybe you can't have it both ways, but you can certainly try."
  • George Steiner in guardian.co.uk
    George Steiner wrote: "We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning."

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