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Rainer Maria Rilke is a Austrian Poète , born the December 4th 1875 with Prague, dead the December 30th 1926 with Montreux, in Suisse. He lived with Veyras of 1921 with his death.

Biography

Rainer Maria Rilke was born in Prague in 1875, in a family which will very quickly intend it for the military career.

He is thus boarder in a military academy before being returned in 1891 for physical inaptitude. He then studies the trade before returning to Prague where he exerts the journalistic profession and writes his first works.

In 1896, it leaves for Munich and meets later one year Lou Andreas-Salome, its elder of almost 15 years. Its ignited love is transformed gradually into reciprocal friendship and mutual admiration continuing until the end of its life. Into 1897, it changes first name: of Rene Maria , it becomes Rainer Maria . He travels in Italy then in Russia with Lou and her husband. He meets on this occasion in 1899 Leon Tolstoï.

In 1901, it marries Clara Westhoff, a pupil of Auguste Rodin, with which it will have a girl, Ruth. The couple separates one year later and Rilke joined Paris where it becomes in 1905 secretary of Rodin. It breaks with this last and travels in all Europe and beyond 1907 to 1910 (North Africa, Egypt, Berlin, Spain, Venice, Aix-en-Provence, Arles, Avignon). It gives up little by little prose to be devoted to poetry, ready according to him to restore the " meanders of the âme".

In 1910, it makes the decisive meeting of the princess Marie von Thurn und Taxis, born Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst, in its castle of Duino, then in Austrian territory, on the edges of the Adriatique. She will frequently lodge it and be her patron until in 1920. For it, it will compose its chief of work, the Élégies of Duino , continuation of elegies impressed of a luminous melancholy. It is mobilized in the infantry at the time of the First World War but returns quickly to the civil life.

Starting from 1919, it joined the Suisse and composes several collections of poetries in French. In 1921, an industrialist and patron of Winterthur, Werner Reinhart, buys to him the tower isolated from Muzot, close to Sierre, of which it will make his residence.

He dies of a Leucémie in 1926 and is buried with Rarogne in Valais.

Its work

Life and song (1894);
In waiting of the way of the life (1896);
Now and per hour of our death (1896);
Offerings with the lares (1895), collection of poetries;
Crowned dream (1896), collection of poetry;
For morning freezing (1897);
Advent (1898);
Without present (1898);
Towards the life (1898);
With the wire of the life (1898), collection of news;
the book of images (1899);
Stories of the good god (1900);
the book of poverty and dead the (1903);
the love song and of died of the cornet Christophe Rilke (1904);
the book of the monastic life (1905);
Letters with a young poet (1903 - 1908);
Requiem (1909);
notebooks of Malta Laurids Brigge (1910)
life of Marie (1913);
Rumor of the ages (1919);
Elegies of Duino (1922);
Sonnets in Orphée (1922);
Orchards (1926) (in French);
Valaisan Quatrains (1926).

Poem extracted from Orchards

The Unicorn

Quotations

“It is good to be alone, because loneliness is difficult. That a thing is difficult must be to us a reason moreover to undertake it. ” Letters with a young poet , May 14th, 1904.
“Only one thing is necessary: loneliness. Great interior loneliness. To go in oneself and not to meet during hours anybody, it is with that it is necessary to arrive. To be only, as the child is alone…” Lettres with a young poet
“to seize a work of art, nothing is not worse than criticism. They lead only to more or less happy misunderstandings. The things are not very to take or say, as one would like to make us believe it. Almost all that arrives is inexpressible and is achieved in an area that never word did not press. And more inexpressible than all are the works of art, these secret beings whose life does not finish and which côtoie ours which passe." Lettres with a young poet
“Read the least possible of critical or esthetic works. It is, or many products of the cliquishness, petrified, deprived of direction in their hardening without life, or of skilful verbal plays; one day an opinion made there law, another day it is the contrary opinion. The works of art are of an infinite loneliness; nothing is worse than criticism to approach them. Only the love can seize them, to keep them, be right towards them. ” Letters with a young poet
“If your daily newspaper appears poor to you, do not show it. Show you yourself not to be enough poet to call with you its richnesses. ” Lettres with a young poet
“One does not have the right to open a book if one does not commit oneself reading them all. ” Books of Malta Laurids Brigge
“To be liked, it is to be consumed in the flame. To like, it is to shine of an inexhaustible light. To be liked, it is to pass; to like is to last. ” Books of Malta Laurids Brigge

Germanic Literature

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