My blood is alive with many voices telling me I am made of longing. — 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
He does not always remain bent over the pages; he often leans back and closes his eyes over a line he has… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Every intensification is good, if it is in your entire blood, if it isn't intoxication or muddiness, but joy which you can… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Extinguish my eyes, I'll go on seeing you. Seal my ears, I'll go on hearing you. And without feet I can make… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
To write rhythmic prose one must go deep into oneself and find the anonymous and multiple rhythm of the blood. Prose needs… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
For our part, when we feel, we evaporate; ah, we breathe ourselves out and away; with each new heartfire we give off… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
And still it is not enough to have memories. One must be able to forget them when they are many, and one… — 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
So it's back once more, back up the slope. Why do they always ruin my rope with their cuts? I felt so… — 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
