Author: Maria Rilke, Rainer
Cited by
- Saskia Sarginson (1)
- IN: The Stranger (2016) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: It seems to him there are a thousand bars; and behind the bars, no world.
FROM: The Panther, (1902), Poem, Bohemia/Austria
- Marjorie Liu (1)
- IN: Labyrinth of Stars (2014) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: I am the mother, yet the daughter is more,
she is everything that the mother was, and that
which the mother was not becomes great in her;
she is the future and the immortal past,
she is the womb, she is the sea...
FROM: Variation of 11.4 from Rainer Maria Rilke’s Book of Hours, (None), Book, Bohemia/Austria