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Rainer Maria Rilke's "Archaic Torso of Apollo"
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Rainer Maria Rilke's "Archaic Torso of Apollo"

To Work is to Live Without Dying - The Atlantic

“Rilke’s most immediate and obvious influence has been upon diction and imagery. [He expressed ideas with] physical rather than intellectual symbols. While Shakespeare, for example, thought of the non-human world in terms of the human, Rilke thinks of the human in terms of the non-human, of what he calls Things.” -W.H. Auden

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