God speaks to each of us as he makes us, then walks with us silently out of the night. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Deeply I go down into myself. My god is Dark and like a webbing made of a hundred roots that drink in… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
The creator must be a world for himself and must find everything in himself and in Nature, to whom his whole life… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I am like a child who awakes At the light, so safe and secureFree from night's fears when dawn breaks, In Thee… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“For the creator must be a world for himself, and find everything within himself, and in Nature to which he has attached… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Yet, no matter how deeply I go down into myself, my God is dark, and like a webbing made of a hundred… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Why don't you think of [God] as the one who is coming, who has been approaching from all eternity... the ultimate fruit… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
God... sat down for a moment when the dog was finished in order to watch it... and to know that it was… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Yet, no matter how deeply I go down into myself, my God is dark, and like a webbing made of a hundred… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Ask no one to speak of you, not even contemptuously. And when time passes and you notice how your name is spreading… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Put out my eyes, and I can see you still; slam my ears to, and I can hear you yet; and without… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“You, yesterday’s boy, to whom confusion came: Listen, lest you forget who you are. It was not pleasure you fell into. It… — 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