May I strike my heart's keys clearly, and may none fail because of slack, uncertain, or fraying strings. May the tears that… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
You see, I want a lot. Perhaps I want everything the darkness that comes with every infinite fall and the shivering blaze… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It is possible I am pushing through solid rock, like the vein of ore encased, alone. I am such a long way… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
This is in the end the only kind of courage that is required of us: the courage to face the strangest, most… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
My eyes already touch the sunny hill. Going far ahead of the road I have begun. So we are grasped by what… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I want to unfold. I don't want to stay folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie, and… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Interior of the hand. Sole that has come to walk only on feelings. That faces upward and in its mirror receives heavenly… — 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
![“May I strike my heart's keys clearly, and may none fail because of slack, uncertain, or fraying strings. May the tears that stream down my face make me more radiant: may my hidden weeping bloom.... How we waste our afflictions!... [T]hey're really our wintering foliage, our dark greens of meaning…” quote by Rainer Maria Rilke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/7c7/rainer-maria-rilke-193_abode_may-i-strike-my-heart-s-keys-clearly-and_52479.jpg)
