Rainer Maria Rilke and Lou Andreas-Salomé Quotes

“I always feel: when one person is indebted to another for something very special, that indebtedness should remain a secret between just the two of them.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke and Andreas-Salomé: A Love Story in Letters

“He began to write a new type of short lyric, which he sometimes called a “Kunst-Ding”: a poem in which the obtrusive interferences of an authorial self and all subjective, accidental occasions have been replaced by an inwardly tensile, self-contained sculptural presence, delimited by strong contours but filled with an utmost of interacting visual and visible reality.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke and Andreas-Salomé: A Love Story in Letters

“She was brought up in the reformed Protestant Church but left it at the age of seventeen in protest against its restrictive rules.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke and Andreas-Salomé: A Love Story in Letters