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After two years at the university, Rilke tagged about Europe for a while with an old girl friend of Nietzsche's, Lou Andreas-Salomé. Then he settled down in an art colony in Worpswede, Germany, where he met and married Clara Westhoff, a handsome young sculptress. Suddenly the poet's constitutional melancholy grew acute. He had discovered that he could not keep a wife and a muse at the same time. The wife graciously bowed out; Rilke went off to Paris, where in 1905 he became private secretary to Sculptor Auguste Rodin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Bee & the Rose | 7/3/1950 | See Source »

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