Rainer Maria Rilke

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), full name René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke, was an Austrian poet and novelist. His works are considered to be "mystical", and both his verse and prose are highly lyrical. He is one of the most lyrically intense German-language poets.

Wisdom & Quotes

• A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other the guardian of his solitude.

- Letters

• The hero is strangely akin to those who die young.

- Duineser Elegien

• Religion is something infinitely simple, ingenuous. …In the infinite extent of the universe, it is a direction of the heart.

- letter to Ilse Blumenthal-Weiss, December 28, 1921

Rafael Sabatini