“לגבי האדם היוצר אין עוני ואין מקום דל ואדיש. ואפילו היית בכלא שחומותיו היו מרחיקות מחושיך את כל הרעשים שבעולם – כלום לא היתה שמורה עמך עדיין ילדותך, הנכס המופלא והמלכותי הזה, בית־אוצר זה של הזכרונות?”

Austrian poet

Rainer Maria Rilke was an Austrian poet and major German-language writer. He is remembered for writing with a distinctive, highly expressive voice, and for work that critics have often read as marked by mysticism. His writing explores subjective experience and doubt, and it spans poetry, one novel, several volumes of correspondence, and a few early novellas. These pieces helped establish his reputation as a writer whose language is intimate, reflective, and inward-looking.