The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned.
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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
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Birth: | 4th December, 1875 |
Death: | 29th December, 1926 |
Nationality: | Austrian |
Profession: | Novelist, Poet |
René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke better known as Rainer Maria Rilke was a Bohemian-Austrian poet. He is considered one of the most significant poets in the German language. His haunting images focus on the difficulty of communion with the ineffable in an
age of disbelief, solitude, and profound anxiety: themes that tend to position him as a transitional figure between the traditional and the modernist poets.
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