Rainer Maria Rilke
Arts & Ideas
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What's the Difference Between a Mystic and a Modernist?
Rilke is fascinated by that void. Does it kind of divide contemporaries into to two groups, those who are more or less overgod and those who are feeling th whole? No, i mean, i also am not, because to bring it also back to the question of modernism. At the time, there were so many different strands. And i think there are concerns that ecahas that are in common with many of the others. In lece's poetry, he iread spiritism, the occult. How do you think this goes down? It's interesting that leslie contrasts him cafke and breston, and writers who perhaps re are not so exercised. They might
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