Rainer Maria Rilke is arguably the most important modern German-language poet. His 'New Poems, Duino Elegies,' and 'Sonnets to Orpheus' are pillars of 20th-century poetry. Yet his earlier verse is ...

In his 1918 poem “Love Song,” acclaimed Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) uses an extended metaphor to depict love ...

Galileo Galilei, astronomer "If we surrendered to earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees." —Rainer Maria Rilke, poet, in Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God "The butterfly ...

Kaur’s poems are usually short and use easy-to ... sweet and simple - as with this lovely little offering from Rainer Maria Rilke. Of Austrian-Bohemian origin, Rilke was famed for his rich ...

There is a rush to know and understand all of this. I don’t have many answers at the moment, but I’m also not convinced it’s ...

Although Vilhelm Hammershøi painted his wife Ida numerous times, we know little about her life or their relationship.

Check if you have access via personal or institutional login Although Rainer Maria Rilke and his work have been much studied and written about over the past century - as befits the perhaps most ...

Rilke and Tolstoy: The Predicament of Influence This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. Rainer Maria Rilke asserted that his meetings with Leo Tolstoy had no influence on his ...

My friend recalled fragments of a quote by the poet Rainer Maria Rilke. We took out our cellphones, Googled the lines and read these words together: “Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your ...

Madeleine Riffaud's life was woven by struggle, writing and three wars – a century of resilience and resistance. The renowned ...

When we think of a painter like Georgia O’Keeffe or a poet like Rainer Maria Rilke, we imagine someone pouring their soul ...

Segouin’s nom de guerre was Nicole. Riffaud was known as Rainer, reflecting her admiration for Rainer Maria Rilke, a poet ...