I live not in dreams but in contemplation of a reality that is perhaps the future. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
And you suddenly know: It was here! You pull yourself together, and there stands an irrevocable year of anguish and vision and… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“I think of you at any time of the day and my worried thoughts accompany all your steps. The slightest breath on… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Right in the difficult we must have our joys, our happiness, our dreams: there against the depth of this background, they stand… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Earth, is not this what you will: in us to rise up invisible? Is it, O Earth, not your dream once to… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“There are a large number of people in the room, but one is unaware of them. They are in the books. At… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
There are quite a number of people in the reading-room; but one is not aware of them. They are inside the books.… — 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
“We can so easily slip back from what we have struggled to attain, abruptly, into a life we never wanted; can find… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
They all have tired mouths and bright seamless souls. And a longing (as for sin) sometimes haunts their dreams. They are almost… — 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… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“I am, O Anxious One. Don’t you hear my voice surging forth with all my earthly feelings? They yearn so high that… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“All the suffering and torment wrought at places of execution, in torture chambers, madhouses, operating theatres, under the arches of bridges in… — 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
