European poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) pursued a life of meaning through his writing. He studied with the greatest minds of the 20th century, from Rodin to Lou Andreas-Salomé, not only to learn how to write better, but to learn how to think, feel, and live like an artist.
On Writing Better | Rainer Maria Rilke —
Precursors of spring;
purity from mother’s heart.
A neighbour’s warm smile.
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Through the creeping light
night and day undivided;
a thousand birdsongs
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A skein of geese
across sparse sky —
The cat stretches
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Early fragrance,
sky darkening —
distant thunder
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