The necessary thing is after all but this; solitude, great inner solitude. Going into oneself for hours meeting no one - this… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Oh longing for places that were not Cherished enough in that fleeting hour How I long to make good from afar The… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Everything that makes more of you than you have ever been, even in your best hours, is right. Every intensification is good. — 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… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Ask yourself in the most silent hour of your night: must I write [create]? Dig into yourself for a deep answer. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
What is necessary, after all, is only this: solitude, vast inner solitude. To walk inside yourself and meet no one for hours-that… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
That is longing: To dwell in the flux of things, To have no home in the present. And these are wishes: gentle… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Everything is gestation and bringing forth. To let each impression and each germ of feeling come to completion wholly in itself, in… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Keep growing quietly and seriously throughout your whole development; you cannot disturb it more rudely than by looking outward and expecting from… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
My life is not this steeply sloping hour, in which you see me hurrying. Much stands behind me; I stand before it… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
There is only one solitude, and it is vast, heavy, difficult to bear, and almost everyone has hours when he would gladly… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
And still it is not enough to have memories. One must be able to forget them when they are many, and one… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
All feelings that concentrate you and lift you up are pure; only that feeling is impure which grasps just one side of… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
This above all-ask yourself in the stillest hour of your night: must I write? Delve into yourself for a deep answer. And… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
At no other time (than autumn) does the earth let itself be inhaled in one smell, the ripe earth; in a smell that is… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share
“That is why the sadness passes: the new presence inside us, the presence that has been added, has entered our heart, has gone into… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share
“Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms, like books written in a… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share
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