“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
“Bodily delight is a sensory experience, not any different from pure looking or the pure feeling with which a beautiful fruit fills… — 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
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
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
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
“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
“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
“Put out my eyes, and I can see you still; slam my ears to, and I can hear you yet; and without… — 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
“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
“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
“But this is what ... people are so often and disastrously wrong in doing: they (who by their very nature are impatient)… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
At no other time (than autumn) does the earth let itself be inhaled in one smell, the ripe earth; in a smell that is… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share
“That is why the sadness passes: the new presence inside us, the presence that has been added, has entered our heart, has gone into… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share
“Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms, like books written in a… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share
