Rilke Poetry Quotes
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Rilke Poetry Quotes & Sayings
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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
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
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 surrenderedto 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