Fame is the sum of the misunderstanding that gathers about a new name. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Someday you will name me, then gently place those burning holy roses in my hair. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Fame — the aggregate of all the misunderstandings that collect around a new name. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Fame is finally only the sum total of all the misunderstanding that can gather around a new name. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
It is so often on the name of a misdeed that a life goes to pieces, not the nameless and personal action… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
To write rhythmic prose one must go deep into oneself and find the anonymous and multiple rhythm of the blood. Prose needs… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Extinguish my eyes, I'll go on seeing you. Seal my ears, I'll go on hearing you. And without feet I can make… — 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
