One moment your life is a stone in you, and the next moment a star! — 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
Go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows. — 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
“No, my life is not this precipitous hour through which you see me passing at a run.” — 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
For believe me, the more one is, the richer is all that one experiences. And whoever wants to have a deep love… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
. . . denn da ist keine Stelle, die dich nicht sieht. Du musst dein Leben andern. (... for there is no… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“I believe that that love remains strong and intense in your memory because it was your first deep aloneness and the first… — 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
“which so incorruptibly reduced a reality to its color content that it resumed a new existence in a beyond of color, without… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
You must think that something is happening upon you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand;… — 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
Read as little as possible of literary criticism - such things are either partisan opinions, which have become petrified and meaningless, hardened… — 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
“Read as little as possible of literary criticism — such things are either partisan opinions, which have become petrified and meaningless, hardened… — 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
“For if we think of this existence of the individual as a larger or smaller room, it becomes clear that most people… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Fate loves to invent patterns and designs. Its difficulty lies in complexity. But life itself is difficult because of its simplicity. It… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“She was in herself, like a woman near term, and did not think of the man, going on ahead, or the path,… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
He who does not at some time, with definite determination consent to the terribleness of life, or even exalt in it, never… — 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
“Trust yourself and your instincts; even if you go wrong in your judgement, the natural growth of your inner life will gradually,… — 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
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
“Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
That is at bottom the only courage that is demanded of us: to have courage for the most strange, the most singular… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Nothing could be less conducive to reaching an art-work than critical remarks:it's always simply a matter of more or less fortunate misunderstandings.… — 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
More unsayable than all other things are works of art, those mysterious existences, whose life endures beside our own small, transitory life. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Somewhere there is an ancient enmity between our daily life and the great work. Help me in saying it, to understand it. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“That is fundamentally the only courage which is demanded of us: to be brave in the face of the strangest, most singular… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Look, I am living. On what? Neither childhood nor future lessens . . . . Superabundant existence wells in my heart. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I could give you no advice but this: to go into yourself and to explore the depths where your life wells forth. — 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
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
“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
For bel.i.eve me, the more one is, the richer is all one experiences. And whoever wants to have deep love in his… — 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
