My blood is alive with many voices telling me I am made of longing. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Speaking of August Rodin: He raised his world above us in an immense arc, and made it a part of nature. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Deeply I go down into myself. My god is Dark and like a webbing made of a hundred roots that drink in… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Success, which is something so simple in the end, is made up of thousands of things, we never fully know what. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
God... sat down for a moment when the dog was finished in order to watch it... and to know that it was… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
It almost seems as if autumn were the true creator, more creative than the spring, which is too even-toned, more creative when… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Whoever you are: in the evening step out of your room, where you know everything; yours is the last house before the… — 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
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
