Again and again in history some people wake up. They have no ground in the crowd and move to broader deeper laws.… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Most people have turned their solutions toward what is easy and toward the easiest side of the easy; but it is clear… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
As people used to be wrong about the motion of the sun, so they are still wrong about the motion of the… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
For poems are not, as people think, simply emotions (one has emotions early enough)-they are experiences. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
There are quite a number of people in the reading-room; but one is not aware of them. They are inside the books.… — 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