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Something wrong?An Austrian poet who made loneliness and doubt sound like prayer. His letters to a young correspondent became one of the most-read guides to the creative life, and his late elegies turned inwardness into a high-wire act of language.
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, All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
Painting is something that takes place among the colors, and ... one has to leave them alone completely, so that they can settle the matter among themselves.
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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René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke was born 4 December 1875 and died 29 December 1926. He spent years moving through Europe before settling in Switzerland, where the landscape fed his poems. He wrote in German and French, producing collections, a semi-autobiographical novel called The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, and volumes of correspondence. His two major poetry collections, Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus, explore subjective experience, mysticism, and disbelief with a language critics call idiosyncratic and expressive. Ten letters he wrote to an aspiring poet were published after his death as Letters to a Young Poet. Decades later, self-help writers and screenwriters discovered him, and his lines started turning up everywhere.
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