“Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and greet each other. ” — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
What is happening on your innermost self is worthy of your entire love. — 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
I am so glad you are here. It helps me realize how beautiful my world is. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and great each other. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
It is part of the nature of every definitive love that sooner or later it can reach the beloved only in infinity. — 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
Everything that makes more of you than you have ever been, even in your best hours, is right. Every intensification is good. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
In one creative thought a thousand forgotten nights of love revive, filling it with sublimity and exaltation. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Young people, who are beginners in everything, cannot yet know love: they have to learn it. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Love and death are the great gifts that are given to us; mostly they are passed on unopened. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Never has grief been possessed, never has love been learned, and what removes us in death is not revealed. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
That’s love: Two lonely persons keep each other safe and touch each other and talk to each other. — 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
“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
“To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Songs of longing! And they will resound in my letters, just as they always have, sometimes loudly and sometimes secretly so that… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“that is where young people so often and so grievously go wrong: that they (whose nature it is to have no patience)… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“He can remember that all beauty in animals and plants is a silent, enduring form of love and longing, and he can… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
No, we don't accomplish our love in a single year as the flowers do; an immemorial sap flows up through our arms… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love. So you mustn’t be frightened, if… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves ... Don't search for the answers, which… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each shall stand guard over the solitude… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Only love is like an arrow to your heart; the more you try to take it out, the more pain and blood… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
We are unutterably alone essentially, especially in the things most intimate and most important. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Solitude is nothing that one can choose or retrain from. We are solitary. We can delude ourselves about this and act as… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I want to unfold. Let no place in me hold itself closed, for where I am closed, I am false... — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Therefore, dear Sir, love your solitude and try to sing out with the pain it causes you. For those who are near… — 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
“And when this power [Richard Dehmel's poetic power], coursing through his being, reaches his sexuality, it doesn't find quite the pure human… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“We have no reason to harbor any mistrust against our world, for it is not against us. If it has terrors, they… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children’s… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
You, Beloved, who are all the gardens I have ever gazed at, longing. An open window in a country house-- , and… — 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