“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
“The claims which the difficult work of love lays upon our development are more than life-sized, and as beginners we are not… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“it is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Lovers were not, Marina, are not permitted to know destruction so deeply. Must be as if they were new. Only their grave… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“How can I keep my soul in me, so that it doesn’t touch your soul? How can I raise it high enough,… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“You, you only, exist. We pass away, till at last, our passing is so immense that you arise: beautiful moment, in all… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“As one puts a handkerchief before pent-in-breath- no: as one presses it against a wound out of which the whole of life,… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“try to have love for the questions themselves, like locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Do not seek… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“In one creative thought a thousand forgotten nights of love come to life again and fill it with majesty and exaltation. And… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
And isn't the whole world yours? For how often you set it on fire with your love and saw it blaze and… — 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
“Some day there will be girls and women whose name will no longer signify merely an opposite of the masculine, but something… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“This advance (at first very much against the will of the outdistanced men) will transform the love experience, which is now filled… — 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