As the arrow endures the string, and in the gathering momentum becomes more than itself. Because to stay is to be nowhere. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Embrace your solitude and love it. Endure the pain it causes, and try to sing out with it. For those near to… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
To be loved means to be consumed. To love is to give light with inexhaustible oil. To be loved is to pass… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
More unsayable than all other things are works of art, those mysterious existences, whose life endures beside our own small, transitory life. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we are still just able to endure, and we are so awed because… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“O shooting star that fell into my eyes and through my body-: not to forget you. To endure.” — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
May you find in yourself enough patience to endure and enough simplicity to have faith... — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so, because… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Things aren't all so tangible and sayable as people would usually have us believe; most experiences are unsayable, they happen in a… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels'hierarchies? and even if one of thempressed me against his heart: I… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
It is always what I have already said: always the wish that you may find patience enough in yourself to endure, and… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Were it possible for us to see further than our knowledge reaches, and yet a little way beyond the outworks of our… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
At no other time (than autumn) does the earth let itself be inhaled in one smell, the ripe earth; in a smell that is… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share
“That is why the sadness passes: the new presence inside us, the presence that has been added, has entered our heart, has gone into… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share
“Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms, like books written in a… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share
