| Author Quoted | Rainer Maria Rilke |
| Title Quoted | Duino Elegies / translated into English by James Blair Leishman and Stephen Spender |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1966/01/13 |
| Imprint | New York : W.W.Norton & Company. 1963 |
| Quotation | Nishida throws much light on Rilke. He makes clear and explicit what Rilke was reaching for in the Duino Elegies: the pure event. This must become a dimension in my own life - it is what the present transcends. |
| Quotation Source | Learning to love: exploring solitude and freedom. The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 6, 1966-1967.; Edited by Christine M. Bochen. / [San Francisco] : HarperCollins. 1997, p. 6 |
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