“Trust yourself and your instincts; even if you go wrong in your judgement, the natural growth of your inner life will gradually,… — 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
If we surrendered to earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“You must not let yourself be misled, in your solitude, by the fact that there is something in you which wants to… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“But because truly being here is so much; because everything here apparently needs us, this fleeting world, which in some strange way keeps calling… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
This above all-ask yourself in the stillest hour of your night: must I write? Delve into yourself for a deep answer. And… — 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
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
“The human being destroys so many things on his own, and it is not in his power to restore anything. Nature, by… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
it is clear that we must trust what is difficult; everything alive trusts in it, everything in Nature grows and defends itself… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.” — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Our task is to take this earth so deeply and wholly into ourselves that it will resurrect within our being. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“It’s true enough, of course, no longer to live on earth is strange, to abandon customs barely mastered yet, not to interpret… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
People have (with the help of conventions) oriented all their solutions toward the easy and toward the easiest side of the easy;… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“In spite of all the farmer's work and worry, he can't reach down to where the seed is slowly transmuted into summer.… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Though he works and worries, the farmer never reaches down to where the seed turns into summer. The earth grants.” — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Everyone once, once only. Just once and no more. And we also once. Never again. But this having been once, although only… — 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
we are continually overflowing toward those who preceded us, toward our origin, and toward those who seemingly come after us. ... It… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Draw near to Nature. Then try like some first human being to say what you see and experience and love and lose. — 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
