| Here, Rilke compares the rose window of a cathedral to the eye of a cat, the gaze of which is in turn likened to a whirlpool. |
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| The poem as philosophical-historical sundial clearly applies to great European lyric poets such as Rilke and Celan. |
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| The two jogged for the next few minutes before Rilke floated over. |
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| For Rilke, the father's all-encompassing love is what drove the prodigal son away in the first place and what threatens to overwhelm and destroy him on his return. |
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| He donated some of his money, at first anonymously, to Austrian artists and writers, including Rainer Maria Rilke and Georg Trakl. |
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| Poets, from Virgil and Ovid to Mallarme and Rilke, have written his story. |
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