Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes:
Ocupation: Poet
Life: December 4, 1875 - December 29, 1926
Birthday: December 4
Death: December 29
My loving friend, you see, my life was never given a foundation, no one was able to imagine what it would want to become. In Venice there stands the so-called Ca del Duca, a princely foundation, on which later the most wretched tenement came to be built. With me it's the opposite: the beautiful arched elevations of my spirit rest on the most tentative beginning; a wooden scaffolding, a few boards....Is that why I feel inhibited in raising the nave, the tower to which the weight of the great bells is to be hoisted (by angels, who else could do it)?
topic: Beautiful, Angel, Opposites, Elevation, Scaffolding, Loving Friends, Tenements
