At the early age of 17 Clara Westhoff went to Munich where she attended a private art school. In 1898 she moved to Worpswede and learnt sculpture with Fritz Mackensen. She continued in 1899 with Carl Seffner and Max Klinger in Leipzig and in 1900 with Rodin in Paris. A year later she married the poet Rainer Maria Rilke in Worpswede. 18 years later, in 1919, she moved to Fischerhude with her daughter Ruth.
We're not good, Clara, at learning to prevent these things, and once we have a child it is ours.
Clara, our strength still lies in the things we used to talk about: how life and death take one another's hands, the struggle for truth, our old pledge against guilt.
Clara, I feel so full of work, the life I see ahead, and love for you, who of all people however badly I say this will hear all I say and cannot say.
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