“A good marriage is one in which each partner appoints the other to be the guardian of his solitude.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet (translation by Stephen Mitchell)

About Rainer Maria Rilke

1875 – 1926

Austro-Bohemian poet, best known for 'Letters to a Young Poet' (written 1903–1908, published 1929) and 'Duino Elegies'.

“Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart, and try to love the questions themselves.”

“I could give you no advice but this: to go into yourself and to explore the depths where your life wells forth.”

“A work of art is good if it has grown out of necessity.”

“The first bond of society is marriage; the next, our children; then the whole family and all things in common.”

“The best friend will probably get the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship.”

“Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.”

“Marriage is the fullness of time.”

“Hail, wedded love, mysterious law; true source of human offspring.”

“A loving heart maintains a family; a hateful heart destroys a family.”