Winning does not tempt that man. This is how he grows: by being defeated, decisively, by constantly greater beings. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Winning does not tempt that man. This is how he grows: by being defeated, decisively, by greater and greater beings. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Und dasTotsein ist mu« hsam und voller Nachholn, dass man allm a« hlich ein wenig Ewigkeit spu« rt. And being dead is… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Love is something difficult and it is more difficult than other things because in other conflicts nature herself enjoins men to collect… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Spring has again returned. The Earth is like a child that knows many poems. Many, O so many. For the hardship of… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Only the individual who is solitary is like a thing placed under profound laws, and when he goes out into the morning… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Perhaps the great renewal of the world will consist of this, that man and woman, freed of all confused feelings and desires,… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
sometimes a man stands up during supper and walks outdoors, and keeps on walking, because of a church that stands somewhere in… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I would like to sing someone to sleep, to sit beside someone and be there. I would like to rock you 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
