*We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it.* [*Rainer Maria Rilke*](http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7906.Rainer_Maria_Rilke?utm_medium=email&utm_source=quote_of_the_day) Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke (born December 4, 1875) changed his first name to Rainer from René after falling in love with Lou Andreas-Salomé. She convinced him that the new name was much more forceful and masculine.