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
If we surrendered to earth’s intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees. Instead we entangle ourselves in knots of our own… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
All companionship can consist in only the strengthening of neighboring solitudes, giving oneself is by nature harmful to companionship: for when a… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
FALLING STARS: Do you remember still the falling stars that like swift horses through the heavens raced and suddenly leaped across the… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
So you mustn't be frightened, dear Mr. Kappus, if a sadness rises in front of you, larger than any you have ever… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
The leaves are falling, falling as if from far up,as if orchards were dying high in space.Each leaf falls as if it… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“O trees of life, O when are you wintering? We are not unified. We have no instincts like those of migratory birds.… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
But suppose the endlessly dead were to wake in us some emblem: they might point to the catkins hanging from the empty… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
You must realise that something is happening to you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and great each other. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
And now let us believe in a long year that is given to us, new, untouched, full of things that have never… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Here is the time for the sayable, here is its home. Speak and attest. More than ever the things we can live… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
You must think that something is happening upon you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand;… — 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
