Rilke

[ ril-kuh ]

/ ˈrɪl kə /

noun

Rai·ner Ma·ri·a

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

Example sentences from the Web for rilke

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
Rilke sees in Rodin the dominant personification in our age of the "power of servitude in all nature."

Poems |Rainer Maria Rilke
Rilke has lived deeply; he has absorbed into his artistic and spiritual consciousness many of the supreme values of our time.

Poems |Rainer Maria Rilke
Rodin became to Rilke the manifestation of the divine principle of the creative impulse in man.

Poems |Rainer Maria Rilke
The ascent toward the acme of Rilke's art after the year 1900 is as rapid as it is precipitous.

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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