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# Ranier Maria Rilke

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René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke, known as Rainer Maria Rilke, was an Austrian poet. Acclaimed as an idiosyncratic and expressive poet, he is widely recognized as a significant writer in the German language. His work is viewed by critics and scholars as possessing undertones of mysticism,

##  Quotes by Ranier Maria Rilke

> [“If you hold to Nature, to the simplicity that is in her, to the small detail that scarcely one man sees, which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ranier-maria-rilke/if-you-hold-to-nature-to-the-simplicity-that-is-in-her-to-the-small/)

[Ranier Maria Rilke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ranier-maria-rilke/)

[Confidence](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/confidence/)

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> [“Live a while in these books, learn from them what seems to you worth learning, but above all, love them.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ranier-maria-rilke/live-a-while-in-these-books-learn-from-them-what-seems-to-you-worth/)

[Ranier Maria Rilke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ranier-maria-rilke/)

[Book](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/book/)

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