Quote by: Rainer Maria Rilke

a kind of memory that tells us that what we're now striving for was once nearer and truer and attached to us with infinite tenderness. Here all is distance, there it was breath. After the first home the second one seems draughty and strangely sexed.


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Author Bio


  • NameRainer Maria Rilke
  • DescriptionAustrian poet and writer
  • BornDecember 4, 1875
  • DiedDecember 29, 1926
  • CountryGermany; Austria
  • ProfessionWriter; Poet; Playwright; Translator; Novelist