... sweetest symphony he's ever heard. He is lying in a room whose walls have pictures of all the characters of the great European epic poems (all the quotes are from a modern translation): 'For the entire story of Troy was wrought in the glasswork thus: of Hector and of King Priam, of Achilles and of King Lamedon, and also of Medea and of ... ...

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... both men find God. Rilke's mother may have been a devout Christian, but from his description of his mother as having "scatterbrained piety" and "pigheaded faith," (Reflections on the Problem of Translation, p. 10) it is apparent that he did not share her faith. He did write quite a bit about angels, but he used them more as an aloof standard that humanity should ... ...

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