“This isn't how sickness was in childhood. A postponement. An excuse to grow up.” — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Look, I am living. On what? Neither childhood nor future lessens . . . . Superabundant existence wells in my heart. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Look, I am living. On what? Neither the childhood nor future/ grows any smaller...Superabundant being/ wells up in my heart.” — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“If somewhere deep within me arises some essence of having been a child, one I never experienced, perhaps the purest childness of… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
You who let yourselves feel: enter the breathing That is more than your own. Let it brush your cheeks As it divides… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
And even if you were in some prison, the walls of which let none of the sounds of the world come to… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Oh hours of childhood, when behind each shape more than the past appeared and what streamed out before us was not the… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Do you recall, from your childhood on, how very much this life of yours has longed for greatness? I see it now,… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Children are still the way you were as a child, sad and happy in just the same way-and if you think of… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I prayed to rediscover my childhood, and it has come back, and I feel that it is just as difficult as it… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Do you remember how this life of yours longed in childhood to belong to the grown-ups? I can see that it now… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“What is needed is this, and this alone: solitude, great inner loneliness. Going into oneself and not meeting anyone for hours –… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
All feelings that concentrate you and lift you up are pure; only that feeling is impure which grasps just one side of… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Sex is difficult, yes. But they are difficult things with which we have been charged...If you only recognize this and manage out… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Think... of the world you carry within you, and call this thinking whatever you want to: a remembering of your own childhood… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Oh scattered band, once my playmates, you few Who were amidst the gardens here and there in the city, How hesitantly we… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Do you remember how life yearned out of childhood toward the "great thing?" I see that it is now yearning forth beyond… — 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
