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Do not be bewildered by the surfaces: in the depths all becomes law.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
One has to be able at every moment to place one's hand on the earth like the first human being.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
There are no classes in life for beginners: right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
All professions are ... filled with demands.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
I think of you often, dear, and with such concentrated wishes that it really must help you in some way.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Some day when I lose you, will you still be able to sleep, without me to whisper over you like a crown of linden branches?
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Draw near to Nature. Then try like some first human being to say what you see and experience and love and lose.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Love consists in leaving the loved one space to be themselves while providing the security within which that self may flourish
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. ... live in the question. — Rainer Maria Rilke
Our task is to take this earth so deeply and wholly into ourselves that it will resurrect within our being.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
You darkness, that I come from, I love you more than all the fires that fence in the world.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
That's love: Two lonely persons keep each other safe and touch each other and talk to each other.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
The grief, too, passes.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
It is good to say it aloud: 'Nothing has happened.' Once again: 'Nothing has happened.' Does that help?
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Irony: Don't let yourself be controlled by it, especially during uncreative moments.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Strange / to wish wishes no longer. / Strange / to see things / that seemed to / belong together / floating in every / direction.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
To be loved means to be consumed. To love is to give light with inexhaustible oil. To be loved is to pass away, to love is to endure.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
In spite of all the farmer's work and worry, he can't reach down to where the seed is slowly transmuted into summer. The earth bestows.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Then draw near to nature. Pretend you are the very first man and then write what you see and experience, what you love and lose.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
In the depths all becomes law.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Rilke said that art can come only out of inner necessity. I write because I must. Or because I cannot not write.
— Aleksandar Hemon
Every angel is terrible.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Life is cut to allow for growth ... one may vigorously put on weight before one fills it out entirely.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Is not impermanence the very fragrance of our days?
— Rainer Maria Rilke
You are not too old and it is not too late
to dive into your increasing depths
where life calmly gives out
it's own secret — Rainer Maria Rilke
A world will come over you, the happiness, the wealth, the inconceivable greatness of a world.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Only those sadnesses are dangerous and bad which one carries about among people in order to drown them out.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Not numbering and counting, but ripening like a tree.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
But this press of time - take it as a little thing next to what endures. All this hurrying soon will be over. Only when we tarry do we touch the holy.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
There is time only to work slowlyThere is no time not to love — Rainer Maria Rilke
The artist's task consists of making one thing of many, and aworld from the smallest part of a thing. — Rainer Maria Rilke
He who understands one thing understands everything, for the same laws are in all.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Never believe fate is more than the condensation of childhood.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
I am touched by your beautiful anxiety about life ...
— Rainer Maria Rilke
For somewhere reigns an old hostility / between living one's Life and doing one's Work.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
The highest form of love is to be the protector of another person's solitude.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
I am like a child who awakes At the light, so safe and secureFree from night's fears when dawn breaks, In Thee I am ever secure.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Be, in this immensity of night, the magic force at your sense's crossroad ...
— Rainer Maria Rilke
What poet's persuasion can reconcile the length of those days with the brevity of life?
— Rainer Maria Rilke
If we surrenderedto earth's intelligence
we could rise up rooted, like trees. — Rainer Maria Rilke
We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning.
— George Steiner
Where otherwise words were, flow discoveries, freed all surprised out of the fruit's flesh. RAINER MARIA RILKE
— Gayle Brandeis
Who has not sat, afraid, before his heart's curtain?
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Rose, oh pure contradiction, joyof being No-one's sleep under so many
lids. — Rainer Maria Rilke
Which so incorruptibly reduced a reality to its color content that it resumed a new existence in a beyond of color, without any previous memories.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Amid these fading and decaying things, be the glass that rings out as it's breaking.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
you are ever again the wave sweeping through all things RAINER MARIA RILKE, BOOK OF HOURS
— Ram Dass
Our own heart always exceeds us.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Someday you will name me, then gently place those burning
holy roses in my hair.
[Songs of Longing] — Rainer Maria Rilke
The most visible joy can only reveal itself to us when we've transformed it, within.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
For the creator must be a world for himself, and find everything within himself, and in Nature to which he has attached himself.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
To be here is immense.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Fame is the sum of the misunderstanding that gathers about a new name.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Particularly in the deepest and most important things, we are unutterably alone,
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Tolerating is the gift from God to women!
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Learn to love the questions themselves.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been
— Rainer Maria Rilke
In the room ... they are inside the books. They move sometimes within the pages, like sleepers turning over between two dreams.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Fame is finally only the sum total of all the misunderstanding that can gather around a new name.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Around everything that is perfected, the unfinished ascends and intensifies.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
To work is to live without dying.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Beauty is only the start of bearable terror.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
This isn't how sickness was in childhood. A postponement. An excuse to grow up.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
I implore those who love me to love my solitude.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
I am much too alone in this world, yet not alone enough
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Perform no miracles for me, But justify Thy laws to me Which, as the years pass by me. All soundlessly unfold.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
But your solitude will be your home and haven even in the midst of very strange conditions, and from there you will discover all your paths.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
I learn it daily, learn it with painto which I am grateful: patience is everything! (Letter Three)
— Rainer Maria Rilke
In one creative thought a thousand forgotten nights of love revive, filling it with sublimity and exaltation.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Thus we live, forever taking leave.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Perhaps the same bird echoed through both of us yesterday, seperate, in the evening.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
the pain that underlies all pain: the pain that we are all, as Rilke phrases it, "unutterably alone.
— Julia Cameron
Your doubt can become a good quality if you train it. It must become knowing, it must become criticism.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Speaking of August Rodin: He raised his world above us in an immense arc, and made it a part of nature.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Success, which is something so simple in the end, is made up of thousands of things, we never fully know what.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Like a tree which does not hurry the flow of its sap and stands at ease in the spring gales without fearing that no summer may follow.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
A carefree letting go of oneself, not a caution, but a wise blindness.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Our deepest fears are like dragons, guarding our deepest treasure.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Your life will no doubt find its own paths. That they be good ones, and rich and expansive, that I wish for you more than I can say.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Those doves below, the ones utterly cared for, never endangered ones, cannot know tenderness.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Your preparation for the real world is not in the answers you've learned, but in the questions you've learned how to ask yourself.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
The future stands still dear Mr Kappus, but we move in infinite space.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
I have faith in nights.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Angels often do now know whether they walk among the dead or living.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Since I've learned to be silent, everything has come so much closer to me.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Take your well-disciplined strengths, stretch them between the two great opposing poles, because inside human beings is where God learns.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while you were sad.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Just keep going - no feeling is final.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Don't take my devils away, because my angels may flee too
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Where I create, there I am true.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
