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<\/h2>\n<\/h2>\nby Rainer Maria Rilke<\/p>\n
The leaves fall, fall as from far,
\nLike distant gardens withered in the heavens;
\nThey fall with slow and lingering descent.<\/p>\n
And in the nights the heavy Earth, too, falls
\nFrom out the stars into the Solitude.<\/p>\n
Thus all doth fall. This hand of mine must fall
\nAnd lo! the other one:\u2014it is the law.
\nBut there is One who holds this falling
\nInfinitely softly in His hands.<\/p>\n
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Rainer Maria Rilke was an influential Bohemian-Austrian poet and one of the most important German-language writers of the 20th century. He was born Ren\u00e9 Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke in 1875 in Prague, which was then part of Bohemia and part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. As a poet, Rilke is associated with both Symbolism and Modernism. His major collections of lyrical poetry include Duino Elegies, Sonnets to Orpheus, Letters to a Young Poet, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, and The Book of Hours. Major themes in his work deal with existentialism, mysticism, solitude, and the role and calling of the poet. He corresponded with and was influenced by contemporaries like Lou Andreas-Salom\u00e9, Paul C\u00e9zanne, Marina Tsvetaeva and Boris Pasternak. He also drew inspiration from psychoanalysis and Rodin’s sculpture. While not well-known beyond German readers during his lifetime, Rilke’s work was rediscovered and celebrated posthumously. He is now considered one of the most lyrical poets writing in German and his poetry has been widely translated and continues to profoundly influence poets today. Rilke died in 1926 at the age of 51 in Valmont, Switzerland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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