About Rainer Maria Rilke
René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke (4 December 1875 – 29 December 1926), known as Rainer Maria Rilke, was an Austrian poet. Acclaimed as an idiosyncratic and expressive poet, he is widely recognized as a significant writer in the German language. His work is viewed by critics and scholars...
More quotations from Rainer Maria Rilke
Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
Who knows? perhaps the same / bird echoed through both of us / yesterday, separate, in the evening…
Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty... Were it otherwise he would never have been able to find those words.