Rilke to Lou Andreas-Salomè
Berlino‒Westend
Oberneuland bei Bremen,
8 august 1903
... When I first came to Rodin and lunched with him out there in Meudon with people to whom one was not introduced, at the same table with strangers, I knew that his house was nothing to him, a paltry little necessity perhaps, a roof for time of rain and sleep; and that it was no care to him and no weight upon his solitude and composure.