I am like a child who awakes At the light, so safe and secureFree from night's fears when dawn breaks, In Thee… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Be, in this immensity of night, the magic force at your sense’s crossroad... — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Ask yourself in the most silent hour of your night: must I write [create]? Dig into yourself for a deep answer. — 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
God speaks to each of us as he makes us, then walks with us silently out of the night. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
A billion stars go spinning through the night, / glittering above your head, / But in you is the presence that will… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
In the night, I wish to speak with the angel to find out if she recognizes my eyes, if she will ask… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
In one creative thought a thousand forgotten nights of love revive, filling it with sublimity and exaltation. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
weren’t you always distracted by expectation, as if every event announced a beloved? (Where can you find a place to keep her,… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
You, God, who live next door-- If at times, through the long night, I trouble you with my urgent knocking-- this is… — 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
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
Quiet friend who has come so far, feel how your breathing makes more space around you. Let this darkness be a bell… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
If there is nothing you can share with other people, try to be close to Things, they will not abandon you; and… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
You darkness, that I come from, I love you more than all the fires that fence in the world, for the fire… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
How I will cherish you then, you grief-torn nights! Had I only received you, inconsolable sisters, on more abject knees, only buried… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
The sky puts on the darkening blue coat held for it by a row of ancient trees; you watch: and the lands… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Odd, the words: ‘while away the time’. How to hold it fast the harder thing. Who is not fearful: where is there… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
God speaks to each of us as he makes us, then walks with us silently out of the night. These are the… — 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