Sándor Márai : Rilke :: Magyar Baráti Közösség

Millions of years and millions of experiences are distilled in a poem.

Author: Sándor Márai. The writing appeared in the book: Four Seasons, pp.297, Révai Publishing House, Budapest, 1938.

Rilke

He must have had an enormity of memories. But who could tally a poet’s memories? As if someone had experienced the Carthaginian wars, the Struggle of Roses, the nights of Savonarola, and, on top of that, everything that people think, dream and do in Berlin or Paris. The poet's memory is boundless. Millions of years and millions of experiences are distilled in a poem. At times a poem is no more than eight lines and rhymes at the end of the lines. This is not important. (Verhaeren used a dictionary of rhymes.) The material is important, of which the poem is made, which is at once human and superhuman, which has something of the daily news and of the thoughts God nurtured when He created the world.

Megjegyzés: Márai S.: Four Seasons, pp.297/translated by Laszlo G Fulop

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Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926)

Rainer Maria Rilke was born December 4, 1875 in Prague, the only child born into an unhappy marriage. Rilke was soon placed into military school by his parents, who envisioned a military career for him. Helped by his uncle, who realized that Rilke was a highly sensitive and gifted child, but unfit for a military career, Rilke left the military academy and entered the German gymnasium. By the time he left the gymansium and entered Charles University in Prague in 1895, he had already published his first volume of poetry. From this time Rilke was determined to pursue a literary career.

“In 1896, Rilke left Charles University and traveled to München/Munich a large cosmopolitan city in South Germany, where his poetic career and life would begin to blossom. Rilke's life would thereafter take him to many places, meeting many people, women he would come to love and lose, and giving him experiences that would enrich and influence the unique voice of his poetry. As Rilke writes, "poems are not...simply emotions..they are experiences. For the sake of a single poem, you must see many cities, many people and things...and know the gestures which small flowers make when they open in the morning..." -The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge. It was his travels to Russia that would prove to be a milestone in Rilke's life, and which he believed marked the true beginning of his early serious works, as the Stunden Buch/Book of Hours published in 1905.” (Renate Hannaford)

Rilke traveled a great deal during his lifetime. His travels included Italy, France, Spain and Egypt. In Paris Rilke began to develop a new style of lyrical poetry, influenced by the visual arts, exmplified in poems published in the Neue Gedichte/New Poems (1907-08).

Rilke spent last part of his life in Switzerland, where he completed and published in 1923 the Duino Elesien/Duino Elegies and Sonnette an Orpheus/Sonnets to Orpheus. "These later works would reflect the culmination of the development of Rilke's poetry...gathering all of his dominant themes of love and the idolization of women, life and death, God and religion, into something all encompassing, a unity."(RH) Leukemia took his life December 29, 1926.

These biographical notes are based on description by Renate Hannaford.
Also see Encyclopedia Britannica.
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/LeftBank/4027/bio.html

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