Quote by: Rainer Maria Rilke

Society in its wisdom has found ways of constructing refuges of all kinds, for since it has been disposed to make the love-life a pastime, it has also felt obliged to trivialize it, to make it cheap, risk-free and secure, as public pleasures usually are.


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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