New Delhi, May 25 -- Rainer Maria Rilke, born in Prague in 1875, emerged as one of the most influential German-language poets of the modern age. His writing moved through themes of solitude, spirituality, beauty, suffering, death, and the emotional struggle of becoming fully human.

According to the Poetry Foundation, Rilke was among the most "lyrically intense" poets of his time, constantly attempting to reconcile life's beauty with its inevitable pain. His most celebrated works include The Book of Hours, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, Duino Elegies, Sonnets to Orpheus and Letters to a Young Poet.

> "For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks."

> Rainer Maria Rilke

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