The story of God

Author: Ye Tingfang
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Publish Date: 2000-01-01
Features: Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926), an Austrian poet. Born into a railway worker family, he studied philosophy, art, and literary history at university. After 1897, he traveled across Europe with a heart full of loneliness and solitude. He met Tolstoy, served as a secretary to the great sculptor Rodin, and was deeply influenced by the French Symbolist poet Baudelaire. During World War I, he was drafted into the army, and after 1919, he moved to Switzerland. Rilke remains undeniably one of the greatest German-language poets of the 20th century. In his prose poems, the purity of prose and the depth of philosophical reflection are almost perfectly combined. He was a solitary figure in the noisy world, spending his entire life searching for a spiritual homeland. The extraordinary quality of his prose lies in his ability to condense what he keenly perceives and deeply contemplates into exquisite and unique imagery, presenting them to us as sculptures. Reading his poems, you cannot help but feel moved, and you will find yourself thinking deeply in fear.