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
Look, I am living. On what? Neither childhood nor future lessens . . . . Superabundant existence wells in my heart. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“They grope before them like blind people and find each the other as they would a door. Almost like children that dread… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.” — 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
Do you remember how life yearned out of childhood toward the "great thing?" I see that it is now yearning forth beyond… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“If somewhere deep within me arises some essence of having been a child, one I never experienced, perhaps the purest childness of… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“And when you realize that their activities are shabby, that their vocations are petrified and no longer connected with life, why not… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
sometimes a man stands up during supper and walks outdoors, and keeps on walking, because of a church that stands somewhere in… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“I, who even as a child had been so distrustful of music (not because it took me out of myself more powerfully… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Do you remember how this life of yours longed in childhood to belong to the grown-ups? I can see that it now… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Do you recall, from your childhood on, how very much this life of yours has longed for greatness? I see it now,… — 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
