Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.
Rilke, Rainer Maria. Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910. Translated by Jane Bannard Greene and M.D. Herter Norton, W. W. Norton & Company, 1945, p. 280.
Hastings founded a colony in Brazil for Confederates who were unwilling to live in the South during Reconstruction. He was trying to raise recruits. His book was effusive in its description of Brazil—without mentioning the yellow fever, poisonous animals, sweltering jungles and some of the less desirable elements of Brazil.
René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke, better known as Rainer Maria Rilke (German: [ˈʁaɪnɐ maˈʁiːa ˈʁɪlkə]), was a Bohemian-Austrian poet and novelist. He is "widely recognized as one of the most lyrically intense German-language poets". He wrote both verse and highly lyrical prose. Several critics have described Rilke's work as "mystical". His writings include one novel, several collections of poetry and several volumes of correspondence in which he invokes images that focus on the difficulty of communion with the ineffable in an age of disbelief, solitude and anxiety. These themes position him as a transitional figure between traditional and modernist writers.
