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Where did Rainer Maria Rilke begin writing the Duino Elegies?
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Rainer Maria Rilke
Austro-German poet and writer Rainer Maria Rilke, 1902.
Rainer Maria Rilke began writing the Duino Elegies in 1912 while visiting the castle of Duino, located on the Adriatic coast.1