“Let everything happen to you. Beauty and terror. No feeling is final.” — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Let everything happen to you Beauty and terror Just keep going No feeling is final — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
But there is much beauty here, because there is much beauty everywhere. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so, because… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Let everything happen to you Beauty and terror Just keep going No feeling is final" Enjoy every moment.” — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Let your beauty manifest itself without talking and calculation. You are silent. It says for you: I am. And comes in meaning… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we are still just able to endure, and we are so awed because… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“How could we forget those ancient myths that stand at the beginning of all races, the myths about dragons that at the… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Who if I cried out, would hear me among the angel's hierarchies? and even if one of them pressed me suddenly against… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels' hierarchies? and even if one of them pressed me against his… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“If your love for […] wants to do something now, then its work and task is this: to catch up with what… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“At last, after weeks of daily fending off, you get your bearings back, and somewhat dazed you tell yourself: No, there is… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Read as little as possible in the way of aesthetics and criticism - it will either be partisan views, fossilized and made… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“He can remember that all beauty in animals and plants is a silent, enduring form of love and longing, and he can… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Finally, after weeks of daily resistance, one finds oneself somewhat composed again, even though still a bit confused, and one says to… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Perfection’s firsts, creation’s pampered favourites, the peaks and summits we look to where they redden in the first touch of the created… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“And you, Clara Westhoff, how simply and well you endured, lived through the experience, and made it a forward step in your… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Bodily delight is a sensory experience, not any different from pure looking or the pure feeling with which a beautiful fruit fills… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Suddenly your eye, which was already preparing itself for larger dimensions, goes about willingly with little, hesitating, hearkening steps over the many… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
The artist's experience lies so unbelievably close to the sexual, to its pain and its pleasure, that the two phenomena are really just different… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share
“Out of infinite longings rise finite deeds like weak fountains, falling back just in time and trembling. And yet, what otherwise remains silent, our… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share
“I love the dark hours of my being. My mind deepens into them. There I can find, as in old letters, the days of… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share
“A complete sharing between two people is an impossibility and whenever it seems, nevertheless, to exist, it is a narrowing, a mutual agreement which… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share
“But this is what ... people are so often and disastrously wrong in doing: they (who by their very nature are impatient) fling themselves… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share
“If there is nothing you can share with other people, try to be close to Things. Things will not abandon you. The nights are… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share
“The point of marriage is not to create a quick commonality by tearing down all boundaries; on the contrary, a good marriage is one… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share
You life will find its own paths... and that they be good, rich, and wide is what I wish for you, more than I… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share
At no other time (than autumn) does the earth let itself be inhaled in one smell, the ripe earth; in a smell that is… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share
“That is why the sadness passes: the new presence inside us, the presence that has been added, has entered our heart, has gone into… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share
“Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms, like books written in a… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share