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
Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart. — 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
“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 man taken out of his room and, almost without preparation or transition, placed on the heights of a great mountain range,… — 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
