“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
At no other time (than autumn) does the earth let itself be inhaled in one smell, the ripe earth; in a smell… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Once for each thing. Just once; no more. And we too, just once. And never again. But to have been this once,… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Go into yourself. Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Our age has built itself vast reservoirs of power / formless as the straining energy that it wrests from the earth.” — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“And you, Clara Westhoff, how simply and well you endured, lived through the experience, and made it a forward step in your… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
If we surrendered to earth’s intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees. Instead we entangle ourselves in knots of our own… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
All companionship can consist in only the strengthening of neighboring solitudes, giving oneself is by nature harmful to companionship: for when a… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Have (with the help of convention) found the solution of everything in ease and the easiest side of ease; but it is… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“turn towards nature, and try, like a First Man, to say what you see and experience and love and lose.” — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
It is clear that we must embrace struggle. Every living thing conforms to it. Everything in nature grows and struggles in its… — 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
“If you trust in Nature, in the small Things that hardly anyone sees and that can so suddenly become huge, immeasurable; if… — 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
If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
If you will cling to Nature, to the simple in Nature, to the little things that hardly anyone sees, and that can… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
The leaves are falling, falling as if from far up,as if orchards were dying high in space.Each leaf falls as if it… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“We’re involved with flower, fruit, grapevine. They speak more than the language of the year. Out of the darkness a blaze of… — 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
“they (who by their very nature are impatient) fling themselves at each other when love takes hold of them, they scatter themselves,… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
To be in circumstances that are working upon us, that from time to time place us in front of great natural Things… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“All who seek you test you. And those who find you bind you to image and gesture. I would rather sense you… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
It is part of the nature of every definitive love that sooner or later it can reach the beloved only in infinity. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
But suppose the endlessly dead were to wake in us some emblem: they might point to the catkins hanging from the empty… — 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
