Rilke Poetry Quotes: top 27 famous quotes about Rilke Poetry

Rilke Poetry Quotes & Sayings

Happy to read and share the best inspirational Rilke Poetry quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.

You put a baby in a crib with an apple and a rabbit. If it eats the rabbit and plays with the apple, I'll buy you a new car. — Harvey Diamond

And if the world has forgotten you,
say this to the stable earth: I run.
Tell the rushing water: I exist. — Rainer Maria Rilke

The ladies in my family have always known what to do in a roomful of rare books. — Charlie Lovett

I live not in dreams but in contemplation of a reality that is perhaps the future. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and greet each other. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Thus must we toil in other men's extremes, That know not how to remedy our own. — Thomas Kyd

What child unable to sleep on a warm summer night hasn't thought he saw Peter Pan's sailing ship in the sky? I will teach you to see that ship. — Roberto Cotroneo

For even the best err in words when they are meant to mean most delicate and almost inexpressible things. — Rainer Maria Rilke

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things. — Rainer Maria Rilke

A billion stars go spinning through the night, / glittering above your head, / But in you is the presence that will be / when all the stars are dead. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Nature is not tailored to man. It exists for itself. — John E. Smelcer

Every angel is terrifying. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Read the lines as if they were unknown to you, and you will feel in your inmost self how very much they are yours. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Art too is just a way of living. — Rainer Maria Rilke

If we surrendered
to earth's intelligence
we could rise up rooted, like trees. — Rainer Maria Rilke

If Rilke cut himself shaving, he would bleed poetry. — Stephen Spender

As Borges has taught us, all the books in the library are contemporary. Great poems are like granaries: they are always ready to enlarge their store. — William H Gass

All things want to float. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Any play that's making a point is less interesting than something that stays with you and suggests something further. — Simon McBurney

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living. — Eileen Caddy

Works of art are of an infinite solitude, and no means of approach is so useless as criticism. Only love can touch and hold them and be fair to them. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Our age has built itself vast reservoirs of power / formless as the straining energy that it wrests from the earth. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Amid these fading and decaying things, be the glass that rings out as it's breaking. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Someday you will name me,
then gently place those burning
holy roses in my hair.
[Songs of Longing] — Rainer Maria Rilke

Not numbering and counting, but ripening like a tree. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Around everything that is perfected, the unfinished ascends and intensifies. — Rainer Maria Rilke

I am much too alone in this world, yet not alone enough — Rainer Maria Rilke