Long Quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke

The future must enter you long before it happens.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Oh longing for places that were not Cherished enough in that fleeting hour How I long to make good from afar The…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

They, who passed away long ago, still exist in us, as predisposition, as burden upon our fate, as murmuring blood, and as…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Let your beauty manifest itself without talking and calculation. You are silent. It says for you: I am. And comes in meaning…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

She followed slowly, taking a long time, As though there were some obstacles in the way; And yet: as though, once it…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

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

and I circle ten thousand years long; And I still don't know if I'm a falcon, a storm, or an unfinished song

— Rainer Maria Rilke

I want to unfold. I don't want to stay folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie, and…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

There would have to be bread, some rich, whole-grain bread and zwieback, and perhaps on a long, narrow dish some pale Westphalian…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Spring has again returned. The Earth is like a child that knows many poems. Many, O so many. For the hardship of…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

And now let us believe in a long year that is given to us, new, untouched, full of things that have never…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Fig tree, how long it's been full meaning for me, the way you almost entirely omit to flower and into the seasonably-resolute…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

You must give birth to your images. They are the future waiting to be born. Fear not the strangeness you feel. The…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

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

“O trees of life, O when are you wintering? We are not unified. We have no instincts like those of migratory birds.…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

It is possible I am pushing through solid rock, like the vein of ore encased, alone. I am such a long way…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

You, God, who live next door-- If at times, through the long night, I trouble you with my urgent knocking-- this is…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Nothing strange should befall us, but only that which has long belonged to us. We will gradually learn to realize that that…

— Rainer Maria Rilke