Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Why should you want to give up a child's wise not-understanding in exchange for defensiveness and scorn, since not-understanding is, after all,… — 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
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
If we surrendered to earth’s intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees. Instead we entangle ourselves in knots of our own… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“This isn't how sickness was in childhood. A postponement. An excuse to grow up.” — 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
“It would be good to give much thought, before you try to find words for something so lost, for those long childhood… — 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
No, we don't accomplish our love in a single year as the flowers do; an immemorial sap flows up through our arms… — 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
Spring has again returned. The Earth is like a child that knows many poems. Many, O so many. For the hardship of… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Every happiness is the child of a separation it did not think it could survive. — 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
“To retreat into oneself and meet nobody for hours on end—that is what one must be able to attain. To be alone,… — 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
“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
I am like a child who awakes At the light, so safe and secureFree from night's fears when dawn breaks, In Thee… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children. — 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
“I am thinking of a summer on the Baltic when I was a child: how talkative I was to sea and forest;… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
What is necessary, after all, is only this: solitude, vast inner solitude. To walk inside yourself and meet no one for hours-that… — 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
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
