When we are only victorious over small things, it leaves us feeling small. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Let everything happen to you Beauty and terror Just keep going No feeling is final — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Always trust yourself and your own feelings, as opposed to arguments and discussions. If it turns out that you are wrong, then… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Keep growing quietly and seriously throughout your whole development; you cannot disturb it more rudely than by looking outward and expecting from… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
The moments when something new has entered us, something unknown; our feelings grow mute in shy embarrassment, everything in us withdraws, a… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Religion is something infinitely simple, ingenuous. It is not knowledge, not content of feeling... it is not duty and not renunciation, it… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Do continue to believe that with your feeling and with your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Perhaps the great renewal of the world will consist of this, that man and woman, freed of all confused feelings and desires,… — 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
Everything is gestation and bringing forth. To let each impression and each germ of feeling come to completion wholly in itself, in… — 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
“Everything is gestation and then birthing. To let each impression and each embryo of a feeling come to completion in itself, in… — 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
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
God speaks to each of us as he makes us, then walks with us silently out of the night. These are the… — 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
