It's fair to say that the German poet Rainer Maria Rilke was bedeviled by God, or what the poet called God. In "Improvisations of the Caprisian Winter" (1906-07), God is a mountain, Rilke writes, in which "I climb / and descend all alone and lose the way." In another early, uncollected poem (1909), he addresses God as "you, whom I cannot take hold of now, anywhere."
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