Quote of the Week

“We see brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen” ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Bio from http://www.poemhunter.com/rainer-maria-rilke/biography/:

Writer and poet, Rilke was considered one of the greatest lyric poets of modern Germany. He created the “object poem” as an attempt to describe with utmost clarity physical objects, the “silence of their concentrated reality.” He became famous with such works as Duineser Elegien and Die Sonette an Orpheus . They both appeared in 1923. After these books, Rilke had published his major works, believing that he had done his best as a writer.