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...affair, interrupted briefly, as Biographer von Salis dryly observes, by his marriage to Clara Westhof. In an age that is congesting toward total togetherness, when even a Wordsworth can only wander lonely as a crowd, the solitary figure of Rilke commands something somewhere between awe and irritation. He sought Weltinnenraum-literally, "inner-world-space," the landscape of the mind that can be seen only by introspection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Santa Claus of Loneliness | 6/12/1964 | See Source »

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