Rainer Maria Rilke
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The Rilker of Inster Graham
Rilka has an extraordinary breadth and immediacy of a spirit, let's call it spiritual feeling. Almost everybody can find something in rilka for themselves. The strange thing is that he doesn't have a terribly good press amongst his biographers because they have concentrated in a very politic correct way - which drives me crazy. I've got this ninverte commis here, and i'm flapping my hands how badly he treated his s, his wife and daughter,. He left them in order to live his life as a poet. And by the same token, i must accept the reproach that as a father, i've been careless and inattentive. A if only
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