Feels Quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke

It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

As if no one had ever tried before, try to say what you see and feel and love and lose.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

I never read anything concerning my work. I feel that criticism is a letter to the public which the author, since it…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

I prayed to rediscover my childhood, and it has come back, and I feel that it is just as difficult as it…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

A birdsong can even, for a moment, make the whole world into a sky within us, because we feel that the bird…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

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

You who let yourselves feel: enter the breathing That is more than your own. Let it brush your cheeks As it divides…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Only the individual who is solitary is like a thing placed under profound laws, and when he goes out into the morning…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

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

You must give birth to your images. They are the future waiting to be born. Fear not the strangeness you feel. The…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

For our part, when we feel, we evaporate; ah, we breathe ourselves out and away; with each new heartfire we give off…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

At no other time (than autumn) does the earth let itself be inhaled in one smell, the ripe earth; in a smell…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

The deep parts of my life pour onward, as if the river shores were opening out. I feel closer to what language…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Extinguish my eyes, I'll go on seeing you. Seal my ears, I'll go on hearing you. And without feet I can make…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

My loving friend, you see, my life was never given a foundation, no one was able to imagine what it would want…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Quiet friend who has come so far, feel how your breathing makes more space around you. Let this darkness be a bell…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

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

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

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

“That's my window. This minute So gently did I alight From sleep--was still floating in it. Where has my life its limit…

— Rainer Maria Rilke