“That is fundamentally the only courage which is demanded of us: to be brave in the face of the strangest, most singular… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Never has grief been possessed, never has love been learned, and what removes us in death is not revealed. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Some day when I lose you, will you still be able to sleep, without me to whisper over you like a crown… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
His gaze against the sweeping of the bars / has grown so weary, it can hold no more. To him, there seem… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“The one so loved that a single lyre raised more lament than lamenting women ever did; and that from the lament a… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Describe your sorrows and desires, passing thoughts and the belief in some sort of beauty-describe all these with loving, quiet, humble sincerity,… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“so much is happening now; you must be patient like someone who is sick, and confident like someone who is recovering; for… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Isn't it time that these most ancient sorrows of ours grew fruitful? Time that we tenderly loosed ourselves from the loved one,… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
We wasters of sorrows! How we stare away into sad endurance beyond them, trying to foresee their end! Whereas they are nothing… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
How I will cherish you then, you grief-torn nights! Had I only received you, inconsolable sisters, on more abject knees, only buried… — 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
