“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
“A complete sharing between two people is an impossibility and whenever it seems, nevertheless, to exist, it is a narrowing, a mutual… — 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… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
We must assume our existence as broadly as we in any way can; everything, even the unheard - of, must be possible… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Things aren't all so tangible and sayable as people would usually have us believe; most experiences are unsayable, they happen in a… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Be patient with all that is uncertain in your heart...do not search for answers, which will not be given: you will not… — 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
Life is cut to allow for growth ... one may vigorously put on weight before one fills it out entirely. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Your life will no doubt find its own paths. That they be good ones, and rich and expansive, that I wish for… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Why should you want to exclude from your life all unsettling, all pain, all depression of spirit, when you don’t know what… — 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
“And if out of this turning-within, out of this immersion in your own world, poems come, then you will not think of… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Only the individual who is solitary is like a thing placed under profound laws, and when he goes out into the morning… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Go into yourself. Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“THE WAIT: It is life in slow motion, it's the heart in reverse, it's a hope-and-a-half: too much and too little at… — 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
“For somewhere reigns an old hostility / between living one's Life and doing one's Work.” — 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
The deep parts of my life pour onward, as if the river shores were opening out. I feel closer to what language… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Art too is just a way of living, and however one lives, one can, without knowing, prepare for it; in everything real… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“I live my life in growing orbits which move out over the things of the world. Perhaps I can never achieve the… — 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
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“And you, Clara Westhoff, how simply and well you endured, lived through the experience, and made it a forward step in your… — 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
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
