Hours Quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke

15 Hours quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke

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Rainer Maria Rilke turned even a single hour into a meditation on being. These fifteen verses reveal his delicate balance of longing and insight, offering a compact yet profound glimpse into his lyrical world.

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Everything that makes more of you than you have ever been, even in your best hours, is right. Every intensification is good.

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The necessary thing is after all but this; solitude, great inner solitude. Going into oneself for hours meeting no one - this…

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Oh longing for places that were not Cherished enough in that fleeting hour How I long to make good from afar The…

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What is necessary, after all, is only this: solitude, vast inner solitude. To walk inside yourself and meet no one for hours-that…

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That is longing: To dwell in the flux of things, To have no home in the present. And these are wishes: gentle…

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I love the dark hours of my being. My mind deepens into them. There I can find, as in old letters, the…

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Ask yourself in the most silent hour of your night: must I write [create]? Dig into yourself for a deep answer.

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

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Everything is gestation and bringing forth. To let each impression and each germ of feeling come to completion wholly in itself, in…

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There is only one solitude, and it is vast, heavy, difficult to bear, and almost everyone has hours when he would gladly…

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My life is not this steeply sloping hour, in which you see me hurrying. Much stands behind me; I stand before it…

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Keep growing quietly and seriously throughout your whole development; you cannot disturb it more rudely than by looking outward and expecting from…

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All feelings that concentrate you and lift you up are pure; only that feeling is impure which grasps just one side of…

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This above all-ask yourself in the stillest hour of your night: must I write? Delve into yourself for a deep answer. And…

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And still it is not enough to have memories. One must be able to forget them when they are many, and one…

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