Quote by: Rainer Maria Rilke

And these things that keep alive on departure know that you praise them; transient, they look to us, the most transient, to be their rescue. They want us to change them completely, in our invisible hearts, into -- O endlessly -- us! Whoever, finally, we may be.


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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