he [Rainer Maria Rilke] wrote poems were chosen from a catalog of the great houses of Europe. Titled women who owned the houses found themselves in receipt of his finely judged letters, delicately suggesting that if hospitality should be extended to him when the wind was in the right direction, masterpieces would ensue.from Slate: Rainer Maria Rilke: What his career--taken along with Bertolt Brecht's--tells us about fame.
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