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Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes about Marriage

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.

Rainer Maria Rilke (1969). “Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910”, p.297, W. W. Norton & Company

I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.

Letter to Paula Modersohn-Becker, 12 Feb. 1902, in Gesammelte Briefe (Collected Letters, 1904) vol. 1, p. 204

a good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude

Rainer Maria Rilke, John J. L. Mood (1994). “Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations”, p.34, W. W. Norton & Company