“I am too alone in the world, and yet not alone enough to make every moment holy. I am too tiny in… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Do you remember…(doesn’t that appear in each of my letters?), do you remember that you spoke of how eagerly you experienced that… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Whoever has no house now will not build one anymore/Whoever is alone now will remain so for a long time/will stay up,… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“It is also good to love: because love is difficult. For one human being to love another human being: that is perhaps… — 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