For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test… — 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
“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
Whoever makes himself freer and more human in his own existence is doing his part towards peace. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“they (who by their very nature are impatient) fling themselves at each other when love takes hold of them, they scatter themselves,… — 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
“I think of you at any time of the day and my worried thoughts accompany all your steps. The slightest breath on… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
This is tha miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, tha more they possess. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Believe in a love that is preserved for you like a heritage, and trust that in this love there is a strength… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
And do not change. Do not divert your love from visible things. But go on loving what is good, simple and ordinary;… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“If your love for […] wants to do something now, then its work and task is this: to catch up with what… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Live for a while in the books you love. Learn from them what is worth learning, but above all love them. This… — 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
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
“In their new personal development the girl and the woman will only be for a short time imitations of the good and… — 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
Look, we don't love like flowers with only one season behind us; when we love, a sap older than memory rises in… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
To be loved means to be consumed. To love is to give light with inexhaustible oil. To be loved is to pass… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“These Things, whose essential life want to express, first ask you, “Are you free? Are you prepared to devote all your love… — 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
