I am a house gutted by fire where only the guilty sometimes sleep before the punishment that devours them hounds them out… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Whoever you are, go out into the evening, leaving your room, of which you know every bit; your house is the last… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Look: the trees exist; the houses we dwell in stand there stalwartly. Only we pass by it all, like a rush of… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
And even if you were in some prison, the walls of which let none of the sounds of the world come to… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
sometimes a man stands up during supper and walks outdoors, and keeps on walking, because of a church that stands somewhere in… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
You, Beloved, who are all the gardens I have ever gazed at, longing. An open window in a country house-- , and… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Whoever you are: in the evening step out of your room, where you know everything; yours is the last house before the… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I am so afraid of people's words.They describe so distinctly everything: And this they call dog and that they call house, here… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
The sky puts on the darkening blue coat held for it by a row of ancient trees; you watch: and the lands… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I would like to sing someone to sleep, to sit beside someone and be there. I would like to rock you 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 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
