“Even when the lights go out, even when someone says to me: "It's over---," even when from the stage a gray gust of emptiness drifts toward me, even when not one silent ancestor sits beside me anymore---not a woman, not even the boy with the brown squint-eye: I'll sit here anyway. One can always watch.”
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German poet known for his profound poetry and epistolary works. Rainer Maria Rilke's poetry style is unique, often exploring themes such as loneliness, love, and religious faith. more
“What a poet I am. Like T S Eliot but with better boobs.”
“He sees eternity in men and women, he does not see men and women as dreams or dots.”
“The spiritual disposition of a poet inclines to catastrophe.”