Rilke

[ ril-kuh ]

noun

1. Rai·ner Ma·ri·a [rahy, -n, uh, r, mah-, ree, -ah], 1875–1926, Austrian poet, born in Prague.

Rilke

/ ˈrɪlkə /

noun

1. RilkeRainer Maria18751926MAustrianCzechWRITING: poet 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)

Example Sentences

The poet Rainer Maria Rilke once told a young writer that we shouldn’t try to eliminate uncertainty, but instead learn “to love the questions themselves.”

From Salon

Near the end of the film, Janet discovers a poem by Rainer Maria Rilke, an excerpt from the fourth of Rilke’s mystical “Duino Elegies.”

From New York Times

His poetry in particular drew heavily from the European modernist tradition of Charles Baudelaire, Rainer Maria Rilke and Ezra Pound, though it remained rooted in its themes and imagery to the Piedmont South.

From New York Times

It was Kathy/Gidget who advised me to mail a birthday card to an ex and include Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke’s “no feeling is final” line in the message.

From Los Angeles Times

He reminds me of Rilke, who wrote to a young poet about how he needed to be patient, to learn the lessons of pain.

From Los Angeles Times