Whoever makes himself freer and more human in his own existence is doing his part towards peace. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Draw near to Nature. Then try like some first human being to say what you see and experience and love and lose. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Take your well-disciplined strengths, stretch them between the two great opposing poles, because inside human beings is where God learns. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Works of art always spring from those who have faced the danger, gone to the very end of an experience, to the… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Whoever now makes himself bigger, freer and more human in his own existence, is doing his part toward peace, — as yet… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess of… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Painting is something that takes place among the colors, and one has to leave them alone completely, so that they can settle… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Perhaps the great renewal of the world will consist of this, that man and woman, freed of all confused feelings and desires,… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
It is not inertia alone that is responsible for human relationships repeating themselves from case to case, indescribably monotonous and unrenewed: it… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult 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
“But now that so much is changing, isn't it time for us to change? Couldn't we try to gradually develop and slowly… — 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
