Sex is difficult, yes. But they are difficult things with which we have been charged...If you only recognize this and manage out… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
You see, I want a lot. Perhaps I want everything the darkness that comes with every infinite fall and the shivering blaze… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Earth, my dearest, oh believe me, you no longer need your springtimes to win me over...Unspeakably, I have belonged to you, from… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves...At present you need to live the… — 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
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
Perhaps everything terrifying is deep down a helpless thing that needs our help. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has… — 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… — 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
