Conversations with Rilke

'I owe Betz infinite gratitude...a first-rate poet, a creative spirit, and a friend to all creative spirits...an ornament to literary France...an artist with words, lovable and worthy of love' - Thomas Mann 'Maurice Betz is one of those artists whose importance only fully appears after they have disappeared' - Marcel Aymé Walking in the Luxembourg Garden, describing encounters with enigmatic diva ...