I think there's space in Rilke's poem for a kind of respect that his language elides.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-06-01] Reference

Pastor Rilke and Father Fardus (who is as tall and thin as Pastor Rilke is short and plump) are standing near the creche.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christmas on Ganymede and Other Stories]

I read somewhere, once, that he admired the poetry of Ranier Maria Rilke, which is earthy, human stuff.    From Wordnik.com.  [Picture Envy #21 - I Once Met A Great Man] Reference

Other characteristic figures in Rilke’s poems are angels, roses and a character of a poet and his creative work.    From Wordnik.com.  [rainer maria rilke | the notebooks of malte laurids brigge « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground] Reference

I really don't think I have ever reversed myself, because even when I fall away from a poet such as Rilke, I still enjoy that poet.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Interview with Harold Bloom] Reference

You are not a prisoner of anything or anyone - Rilke.    From Wordnik.com.  [Virgo New Moon, August 30, 2008] Reference

Why the Rilke fascination, hasn't that been outgrown?.    From Wordnik.com.  [What's Eating William Gass?] Reference

Blätter der Rilke-Gesellschaft 19 (1992): 187 – 200.    From Wordnik.com.  [Claire Goll.] Reference

Pastor Rilke pays us a visit while she's still at work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christmas on Ganymede and Other Stories]

For the angels, said Warner, she was indebted to Rilke.    From Wordnik.com.  [Look Homeward, Angel] Reference

Rilke understands the subtle currents of the human heart.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rabbi David Wolpe: 3 Short Books To Live By (And They're Not On Any Bestseller List)] Reference

In response to Rilke in Life and Death (September 27, 1984).    From Wordnik.com.  [Correction] Reference

When Rilke wrote these words, he was counseling a young poet.    From Wordnik.com.  [College Presidents Pen Admissions Essays] Reference

Rilke was in love with women who loved hopelessly but persistently.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Affair to Remember] Reference

And Shigri's lover, the Poison perfume-wearing, Rilke-quoting Obaid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poking Fun at Pakistan] Reference

Here are some pictures of Gaga showing off her tattoo of a Rilke poem.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is Lady Gaga Turning Into Amy Winehouse? (PHOTOS, POLL)] Reference

Poliacek replaces Rilke, then a minute or so later Majtan replaces Ceesay.    From Wordnik.com.  [MSK Zilina v Chelsea - as it happened] Reference

Maybe you should turn off the comment option when you're being Rilke, Ian.    From Wordnik.com.  [rilkean heart] Reference

It is the city of Kafka and Rilke, where German is a common second language.    From Wordnik.com.  [1968 the Year that Rocked the World]

I try not to think what Humphrey would think about my Rilke quoting earlier.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chase] Reference

Lou Andreas-Salome, for instance, was romanced by Nietzsche, Rilke and Freud.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tops Of 2002: Books] Reference

HANSEN: Here you are, you're quoting Rilke, you're quoting Flannery O'Connor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hubbard's Path: 'Redneck Mother' to 'Wylie Lama'] Reference

(Kohler takes a lover names Lou, a Salome stand in and a way of doubling Rilke.).    From Wordnik.com.  [What's Eating William Gass?] Reference

In conversation Searls suggests we think of Thoreau, Rilke and Proust as a trio.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christopher Lydon: Damion Searls: A Thoreau Journal for Writers & Moderns (AUDIO)] Reference

"I know there's no need to ask you if you'll be present," Pastor Rilke concludes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christmas on Ganymede and Other Stories]

SILBERMAN: Was that one of the things that attracted you to Rilke, the long lines?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Steve Silberman's Interview with Robert Hunter from Poetry Flash] Reference

Deutsch, who was fluent in German, also translated the works of Rilke into English.    From Wordnik.com.  [Babette Deutsch.] Reference

She had no apparent interest in poetry, other than Rilke, Auden, and a few friends.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes on Susan] Reference

It was probably translating Rilke that was the beginning of the breakthrough for me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Steve Silberman's Interview with Robert Hunter from Poetry Flash] Reference

Rilke wrote these letters to a young correspondent who published them in later years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rabbi David Wolpe: 3 Short Books To Live By (And They're Not On Any Bestseller List)] Reference

If I had been, I should not have been so positive about the untranslatability of Rilke.    From Wordnik.com.  [Correction] Reference

For instance, here is Leishmanized Rilke (from the last Rilke poem, "Komm du, du letzter").    From Wordnik.com.  [Translating Rilke: An Exchange] Reference

Zhirkov bombs down the left and is upended by a clumsy Rilke, level with the edge of the box.    From Wordnik.com.  [MSK Zilina v Chelsea - as it happened] Reference

Heidegger, Rilke, Faulkner and Ross Macdonald make appearances during the banter at his shows.    From Wordnik.com.  [A New Lair for Zevon Desperadoes] Reference

So somewhere around that time, too, someone gave me a book called Letters to a Young Poet by Rilke.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hubbard's Path: 'Redneck Mother' to 'Wylie Lama'] Reference

He looked in my eyes and said -- as Rilke from Apollo said 'You must change your life' -- 'See it.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Norman MacAfee: Bless This House] Reference

Rilke matched, very much, my idea of where I thought English poetry should be, which will show how far out of date I was.    From Wordnik.com.  [Steve Silberman's Interview with Robert Hunter from Poetry Flash] Reference