You must give birth to your images. They are the future waiting to be born. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Our being is continually undergoing and entering upon changes. ... We must, strictly speaking, at every moment give each other up and… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“How much there is to suffer. When was time enough to pay attention to our lighter emotions? And still I recognize, better… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
God... sat down for a moment when the dog was finished in order to watch it... and to know that it was… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
They, who passed away long ago, still exist in us, as predisposition, as burden upon our fate, as murmuring blood, and as… — 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
As people used to be wrong about the motion of the sun, so they are still wrong about the motion of the… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Right in the difficult we must have our joys, our happiness, our dreams: there against the depth of this background, they stand… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his conscious reflection,… — 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
“Out of infinite longings rise finite deeds like weak fountains, falling back just in time and trembling. And yet, what otherwise remains… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“And this is why it is so important to be lonely and attentive when one is sad: because the apparently uneventful and… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Here is the time for the sayable, here is its home. Speak and attest. More than ever the things we can live… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Lord, it is time. The summer was very big. Lay thy shadow on the sundials, and on the meadows let the winds… — 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
“Whom will you cry to, heart? More and more lonely, your path struggles on through incomprehensible mankind. All the more futile perhaps… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
You, God, who live next door-- If at times, through the long night, I trouble you with my urgent knocking-- this is… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his reflective processes,… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Does time really exist, time the destroyer? When will it break down the castle into mere fragments? When will this heart which… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“When I think about little girls in the moment of turning into big girls (it is no slow timid development but something… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
And we, spectators always, everywhere, looking at, never out of, everything! It fills us. We arrange it. It collapses. We re-arrange it,… — 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
In this there is no measuring with time, a year doesn’t matter, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means: not… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“We of the here-and-now are not for a moment satisfied in the world of time, nor are we bound in it; we… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“that Rome (if one does not yet know it) has an oppressingly sad effect for the first few days: through the lifeless… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
A birdsong can even, for a moment, make the whole world into a sky within us, because we feel that the bird… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“of all the disfigured and decaying Things, which, after all, are essentially nothing more than accidental remains from another time and from… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Do not despair if the answers don't come immediately. Some answers are… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Perhaps then, some day far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
My art is representational by choice…if the art of painting is to survive, it must describe and express people, their lives and… — 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
Don't be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you; simply let it happen. Otherwise it will be too easy… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
And yet, for some time now I have believed that it is our own force, all our own force that is still… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
He who does not at some time, with definite determination consent to the terribleness of life, or even exalt in it, never… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“I want my own will, and I want simply to be with my will, as it goes toward action. And in the… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Ask no one to speak of you, not even contemptuously. And when time passes and you notice how your name is spreading… — 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
