"I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other." — Rainer Maria Rilke, Bohemian-Austrian poet, born 1875
"Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that needs our love." — Rainer Maria Rilke, Bohemian-Austrian poet, born 1875
"I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance." — Arthur Rimbaud, French poet, born October 20, 1854
"I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still." — Arthur Rimbaud, French poet, died November 10, 1891
"The poet, therefore, is truly the thief of fire. He is responsible for humanity, for animals even; he will have to make sure his visions can be smelled, fondled, listened to; if what he brings back from beyond has form, he gives it form; if it has none, he gives it none." — Arthur Rimbaud, French poet, born October 20, 1854
"Yet this is the watch by night. Let us all accept new strength, and real tenderness. And at dawn, armed with glowing patience, we will enter the cities of glory." — Arthur Rimbaud, French poet, died November 10, 1891
"What an old maid I'm getting to be—lacking the courage to be in love with death!" — Arthur Rimbaud, French poet, died November 10, 1891
"I had no idea of the historical evolution of the civilized world's music and had not realized that all modern music owes everything to Bach." — Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian composer, born March 18, 1844
"You cannot sit here in the shrine room serenely practicing and then walk out that door and treat each other badly. If you meditate in perfect peace and then flash someone an irritable look because they make noise or their child cries, you are entirely missing the point." — Khandro Rinpoche, Indian spiritual leader, born August 19, 1967
"We give because someone gave us. We give because nobody gave to us. We give because giving has changed us. We give because giving could have changed us." — Alberto Rios, American poet, born September 18, 1952
"I know that each one of us travels to love alone, alone to faith and to death. I know it. I've tried it. It doesn't help. Let me come with you." — Yiannis Ritsos, Greek poet, born May 1, 1909
"I think a lot of the time these days people are so concerned about having the right camera and the right film and the right lenses and all the special effects that go along with it, even the computer, that they're missing the key element." — Herb Ritts, American photographer, born August 13, 1952
"Through her paintings, she breaks all the taboos of the woman's body and of female sexuality." — Diego Rivera, Mexican painter, died November 24, 1957