You darkness, that I come from, I love you more than all the fires that fence in the world, for the fire… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
and I circle ten thousand years long; And I still don't know if I'm a falcon, a storm, or an unfinished song — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
His vision, from the constantly passing bars, has grown so weary that it cannot hold anything else. It seems to him there… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“I live my life in growing orbits which move out over this wondrous world, I am circling around God, around ancient towers… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
You, darkness, of whom I am born- I love you more than the flame that limits the world to the circle it… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I live my life in widening circle That reach out across the world. I may not ever complete the last one, But… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Losing too is still ours; and even forgetting still has a shape in the kingdom of transformation. When something's let go 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