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Rainer Maria Rilke
1875-1926 (Age at death: 51 approx.)
Rene Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke (4 December 1875 - 29 December 1926)""better known as Rainer Maria Rilke (German: [ˈÊaɪnÉ maˈÊiËa ˈÊɪlkÉ™])""was a Bohemian-Austrian poet and novelist, "widely recognized as one of the most lyrically intense German-language poets", writing in both verse and highly lyrical prose. Several critics have described Rilke's work as inherently "mystical". His writings include one novel, several collections of poetry, and several volumes of correspondence in which he invokes haunting images that focus on the difficulty of communion with the ineffable in an age of disbelief, solitude, and profound anxiety. These deeply existential themes tend to position him as a transitional figure between the traditional and the modernist writers.
Rilke was born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, travelled extensively throughout Europe, including Russia, Spain, Germany, France, Italy, and in his later years settled in Switzerland""settings that were key to the genesis and inspiration for many of his poems. While Rilke is most known for his contributions to German literature, over 400 poems were originally written in French and dedicated to the canton of Valais in Switzerland. Among English-language readers, his best-known works include the poetry collections Duino Elegies (Duineser Elegien) and Sonnets to Orpheus (Die Sonette an Orpheus), the semi-autobiographical novel The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge), and a collection of ten letters that was published after his death under the title Letters to a Young Poet (Briefe an einen jungen Dichter). In the later 20th century, his work has found new audiences through its use by New Age theologians and self-help authors, and through frequent quoting in television programs, books and motion pictures. In the United States, Rilke is one of the more popular, best-selling poets""along with 13th-century Sufi mystic Rumi and 20th-century Lebanese-American poet Khalil Gibran.
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If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator these is no poverty and no poor indifferent place. And even if you were in some prison the walls of which let none of the sounds of the world come to your senses-- would you not then still have your childhood, that precious, kingly possession, that treasure-house of memories? Turn your attention there. Try to br... |
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In one creative thought a thousand forgotten nights of love revive and fill it with sublimity and exaltation. |
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In one creative thought a thousand forgotten nights of love revive and fill it with sublimity and exaltation. |
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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning. |
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It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it. |
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always. |
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Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers. |
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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other. |
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack. |
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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger. |
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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky. |
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Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. |
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Physical pleasure is a sensual experience no different from pure seeing or the pure sensation which which a fine fruit fills the tongue; it is a great, unending experience, that is given us, a knowing of the world, the fullness and the glory of all knowing. And not our acceptance of it is bad; the bad thing is that most people misuse and squander these experiences and take them as a stimulant in the tired spots of their lives and as distraction i... |
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Physical pleasure is a sensual experience no different from pure seeing or the pure sensation which which a fine fruit fills the tongue; it is a great, unending experience, that is given us, a knowing of the world, the fullness and the glory of all knowing. And not our acceptance of it is bad; the bad thing is that most people misuse and squander these experiences and take them as a stimulant in the tired spots of their lives and as distraction i... |
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Pour yourself out like a fountain. |
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Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further. |
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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens. |
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The only journey is the one within. |
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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things. |
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There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult. |
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