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Rainer Maria Rilke

Rainer Maria Rilke
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Rainer Maria Rilke

Born: 04 December 1875 • Died: 29 December 1926

Rainer Maria Rilke was born on December 4, 1875, in Prague. By the time he enrolled at Charles University in Prague in 1895, he knew that he would pursue a literary career: he had already published his first volume of poetry, Leben und Lieder, the previous year. Between 1895 and 1896, Rilke published his second collection, Larenopfer (Sacrifice to the Lares). A third collection, Traumgekrönt (Dream-Crowned) followed in 1896. In 1919, Rilke went to Switzerland. It was here that he wrote his last two works, The Duino Elegies (1923) and Sonnets to Orpheus (1923). Rilke died of leukaemia on December 29, 1926. (Source)

Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke

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Archaic Torso of Apollo by Rainer Maria Rilke

April 17, 2026
Archaic Torso of ApolloRainer Maria Rilke We cannot know his legendary head with eyes like ripening fruit. And yet his torso is still suffused with brilliance from inside, like a lamp, in which his gaze, now turned to low, gleams […]
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Autumn Day by Rainer Maria Rilke

December 9, 2025
“Whoever has no house now will establish none,” — Rainer Maria Rilke
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[You darkness, that I come from,] by Rainer Maria Rilke

August 1, 2025
“But the darkness pulls in everything: / shapes and fires, animals and myself, / how easily it gathers them! — ” — Rainer Maria Rilke
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For Hans Carossa by Rainer Maria Rilke

January 13, 2012
"Losing too is still ours; and even forgetting / still has a shape in the kingdom of transformation." — Rainer Maria Rilke
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What birds plunge through is not the intimate space by Rainer Maria Rilke

October 31, 2011
"It has no limits. Not till it is held / in your renouncing is it truly there." — Rainer Maria Rilke
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Autumn Day by Rainer Maria Rilke

April 7, 2011
"Whoever has no house now will not build one anymore." — Rainer Maria Rilke