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Author QuotedRainer Maria Rilke
Title QuotedSonnets to Orpheus / translated by J.B.L. Leishman
Date (Year/Month/Day)1966/01/17
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QuotationDo you read [Rainer Maria] Rilke at all? Does he mean anything to you? I think you would like the Duino Elegies and the Sonnets to Orpheus.
Quotation SourceThe Courage for Truth: Letters of Thomas Merton to Writers.; Selected and edited by Christine M. Bochen. / New York : Farrar Straus Giroux. 1993, p. 228
Letter toLudovico Silva
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