Children Quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke

“Art is childhood.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Never believe fate is more than the condensation of childhood.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

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

“This isn't how sickness was in childhood. A postponement. An excuse to grow up.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Look, I am living. On what? Neither the childhood nor future/ grows any smaller...Superabundant being/ wells up in my heart.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Every happiness is the child of a separation it did not think it could survive.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Look, I am living. On what? Neither childhood nor future lessens . . . . Superabundant existence wells in my heart.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

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

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

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

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

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

“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

“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

“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

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

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

“What is needed is this, and this alone: solitude, great inner loneliness. Going into oneself and not meeting anyone for hours –…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

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

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

“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

“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

“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

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

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

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

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

“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

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

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

“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

“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

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

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

“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