If my devils are to leave me, I'm afraid my angels will take flight as well. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“This, a world seen no longer from the human point of view, but inside the angel, is perhaps my real task.” — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
In the night, I wish to speak with the angel to find out if she recognizes my eyes, if she will ask… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
If the angel deigns to come it will be because you have convinced her, not by tears but by your humble resolve… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
If the Angel deigns to appear, it will be because you have convinced him, not by tears but by your humble resolve… — 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
“Every angel is terrible. And yet, alas I welcome you, almost fatal birds of the soul, knowing about you. ... If the… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels'hierarchies? and even if one of thempressed me against his heart: I… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“If you were to give yourself over to this angel, Rilke tells the reader, some day, some night, the angel’s light hands… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“O smile, going where? O upturned look: new, warm, receding surge of the heart--; alas, we are that surge. Does then the… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
My loving friend, you see, my life was never given a foundation, no one was able to imagine what it would want… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Praise the world to the angel, not what can’t be talked about. You can’t impress him with your grand emotions. In the… — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
I do not want to be folded for where I am folded, there I am a lie. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
