Irony: Don't let yourself be controlled by it, especially during uncreative moments. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
What is happening on your innermost self is worthy of your entire love. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and greet each other. ” — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
What we do battle with is so small, what battles us is so large... — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Perhaps everything terrible is, in its deepest being, something that needs our love.” — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
These soft nights hold me like themselves aloft and I lie without a lover. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
It is part of the nature of every definitive love that sooner or later it can reach the beloved only in infinity. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Never has grief been possessed, never has love been learned, and what removes us in death is not revealed. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Love and death are the great gifts that are given to us; mostly they are passed on unopened. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Everything that makes more of you than you have ever been, even in your best hours, is right. Every intensification is good. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
In one creative thought a thousand forgotten nights of love revive, filling it with sublimity and exaltation. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Young people, who are beginners in everything, cannot yet know love: they have to learn it. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
This is tha miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, tha more they possess. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
To be loved means to be consumed. To love is to give light with inexhaustible oil. To be loved is to pass… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Society in its wisdom has found ways of constructing refuges of all kinds, for since it has been disposed to make the… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“we want it visible to show when even the most visible joy will reveal itself only when we have transformed it within.… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess of… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Love is something difficult and it is more difficult than other things because in other conflicts nature herself enjoins men to collect… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Don't ask for any advice from them and don't expect any understanding; but believe in a love that is being stored up… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
weren’t you always distracted by expectation, as if every event announced a beloved? (Where can you find a place to keep her,… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“I think of you at any time of the day and my worried thoughts accompany all your steps. The slightest breath on… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
That is why young people, who are beginners in everything, are not yet capable of love: it is something they must learn.… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“try to have love for the questions themselves, like locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Do not seek… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
And isn't the whole world yours? For how often you set it on fire with your love and saw it blaze and… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“And when this power [Richard Dehmel's poetic power], coursing through his being, reaches his sexuality, it doesn't find quite the pure human… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Therefore, dear Sir, love your solitude and try to sing out with the pain it causes you. For those who are near… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“A complete sharing between two people is an impossibility and whenever it seems, nevertheless, to exist, it is a narrowing, a mutual… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children’s… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
You, Beloved, who are all the gardens I have ever gazed at, longing. An open window in a country house-- , and… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
What happens most deeply inside you is worthy of your whole love. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
The highest form of love is to be the protector of another person’s solitude. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
... be indulgent toward those who ... are afraid of the aloneness that you trust. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack. — 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