“For somewhere reigns an old hostility / between living one's Life and doing one's Work.” — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“For there is no place that does not see you. You must change your life.” — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Let everything happen to you. Beauty and terror. No feeling is final.” — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“I live my life in growing orbits which move out over the things of the world.” — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Be patient with all that is unsolved in your life. Learn to love the questions themselves, until some distant day, without your… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
If your everyday life appears to be unworthy subject matter, do not complain to life. Complain to yourself, Lament that you are… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
But learning-time is always a long, secluded time, and so loving, for a long while ahead and far on into life, is-solitude,… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Your life will still find its own paths from there, and that they may be good, rich, and wide is what I… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
What keeps you from... living your life as a painful and lovely day in the history of a great pregnancy? — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Always trust yourself. If it turns out you are wrong, then that natural course of your inner life will lead you to… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
The creator must be a world for himself and must find everything in himself and in Nature, to whom his whole life… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Things are not all so comprehensible and expressible as one would mostly have us believe; most events are inexpressible, taking place in… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“In one creative thought a thousand forgotten nights of love come to life again and fill it with majesty and exaltation. And… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“I do not wish to say that one should love death; but one should love life so magnanimously, so without calculating and… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
It is clear that we must embrace struggle. Every living thing conforms to it. Everything in nature grows and struggles in its… — 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
“Take the destiny upon yourself, and bear it, its burden and its greatness, without ever asking what reward might come from outside.… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
with poems one accomplishes so little when one writes them early. One should hold off and gather sense and sweetness a whole… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
You have had many sadnesses, large ones, which passed. ... But please, ask yourself whether these large sadnesses haven't rather gone right… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“It’s true enough, of course, no longer to live on earth is strange, to abandon customs barely mastered yet, not to interpret… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“And if we only organize our life according to the principle which teaches us always to hold to what is difficult, then… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“And your doubts can become a good quality if you school them. They must grow to be knowledgeable , they must learn… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
And isn't the whole world yours? For how often you set it on fire with your love and saw it blaze and… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
So it's back once more, back up the slope. Why do they always ruin my rope with their cuts? I felt so… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Why do you want to shut out of your life any uneasiness, any misery, any depression, since after all you don't know… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Always trust yourself and your own feeling, as opposed to argumentations, discussions, or introductions of that sort; if it turns out that… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“You see, I want a lot. Maybe I want it all: the darkness of each endless fall, the shimmering light of each… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“And as for the rest, let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.” — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
You are nearing the land that is life; you will recognize it by its seriousness. — 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
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