“Now we wake up with our memory and fix our gazes on that which was; whispering sweetness, which once coursed through us,… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Again and again, however we know the landscape of love and the little churchyard there, with its sorrowing names, and the frighteningly… — 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
“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
“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
What happens most deeply inside you is worthy of your whole love. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Nearly everything that matters is a challenge, and everything matters. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
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
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
In one creative thought a thousand forgotten nights of love revive, filling it with sublimity and exaltation. — 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
“What goes on in your innermost being is worth all your love, this is what you must work on however you can… — 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
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
We must accept our reality as vastly as we possibly can; everything, even the unprecedented, must be possible within it. — 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
These soft nights hold me like themselves aloft and I lie without a lover. — 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
“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
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
