Heart Quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke

Our heart always transcends us.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Now for some heartwork.

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I would like to step out of my heart and go walking beneath the enormous sky.

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Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.

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“And the heart has become so tired, and the longing so vast.”

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Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart...

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Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. ...live in the question.

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The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned within you.

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Dig deep into your heart, where the answer spreads its roots in your being, and ask yourself solemnly, Must I write?

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Music: breathing of statues. Perhaps: silence of paintings. You language where all language ends. You time standing vertically on the motion of…

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She followed slowly, taking a long time, As though there were some obstacles in the way; And yet: as though, once it…

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Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of…

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Be patient with all that is uncertain in your heart...do not search for answers, which will not be given: you will not…

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Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Do not despair if the answers don't come immediately. Some answers are…

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Look, I am living. On what? Neither childhood nor future lessens . . . . Superabundant existence wells in my heart.

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

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Religion is something infinitely simple, ingenuous. It is not knowledge, not content of feeling... it is not duty and not renunciation, it…

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And these things that keep alive on departure know that you praise them; transient, they look to us, the most transient, to…

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I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if…

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Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels'hierarchies? and even if one of thempressed me against his heart: I…

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No one can advise or help you - no one. There is only one thing you should do. Go into yourself. Search…

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Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves...At present you need to live the…

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Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your…

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“Odd, the words: ‘while away the time’. How to hold it fast the harder thing. Who is not fearful: where is there…

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I would like to beg of you, dear friend, as well as I can, to have patience with everything that remains unsolved…

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May I strike my heart's keys clearly, and may none fail because of slack, uncertain, or fraying strings. May the tears that…

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FALLING STARS: Do you remember still the falling stars that like swift horses through the heavens raced and suddenly leaped across the…

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Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like…

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His vision, from the constantly passing bars, has grown so weary that it cannot hold anything else. It seems to him there…

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

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Be ahead of all parting, as though it already were behind you, like the winter that has just gone by. For among…

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“She was in herself, like a woman near term, and did not think of the man, going on ahead, or the path,…

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“Being dead filled her beyond fulfillment. Like a fruit suffused with its own mystery and sweetness, she was filled with her vast…

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That is why young people, who are beginners in everything, are not yet capable of love: it is something they must learn.…

— Rainer Maria Rilke