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Rainer Maria Rilke

Rainer Maria Rilke




Full Name: Rene Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke

Birthdate: December 4, 1875
Birthplace: Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary
Date of Death: December 29, 1926

Occupation: Author and Poet
Profile: Best known for Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus.

Website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainer_Maria_Rilke
Number of Quotes: 2




Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.

Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.

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