THE LOVE-STORY OF RAINER MARIA RILKE: The Lyric Poet and Mystic and the Romance that Came to Him in Maturity
... A ROMANCE coming to a man and woman mature in years may sometimes be endowed with the deepest poignancy; it can touch the heights of which the young can only dream, that is, if it escapes being ridiculous; it may possess a spiritual quality that has little affinity with the high passion of young love. Such was the experience of Ramer Maria Rilke, the German lyric poet and mystic, and of Magda ...