Girls, there are poets who learn from you to say, what you, in your aloneness, are; and they learn through you to… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“And you, Clara Westhoff, how simply and well you endured, lived through the experience, and made it a forward step in your… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Why don't you think of [God] as the one who is coming, who has been approaching from all eternity... the ultimate fruit… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
So it's back once more, back up the slope. Why do they always ruin my rope with their cuts? I felt so… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
And one of the things I find most moving is the way people with infirmities manage to embrace Life, and from the… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Be out of sync with your times for just one day, and you will see how much eternity you contain within you. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Only he whose bright lyre has sounded in shadows may, looking onward, restore his infinite praise. Only he who has eaten poppies… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
In this there is no measuring with time, a year doesn’t matter, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means: not… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“We are not permitted to linger, even with what is most intimate. From images that are full, the spirit plunges on to… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
A billion stars go spinning through the night, blazing high above your head. But in you is the presence that will be,… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
That is longing: To dwell in the flux of things, To have no home in the present. And these are wishes: gentle… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Und dasTotsein ist mu« hsam und voller Nachholn, dass man allm a« hlich ein wenig Ewigkeit spu« rt. And being dead is… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
The sky puts on the darkening blue coat held for it by a row of ancient trees; you watch: and the lands… — 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
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