“think: the hero prolongs himself, even his falling was only a pretext for being, his latest rebirth.” — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“As Borges has taught us, all the books in the library are contemporary. Great poems are like granaries: they are always ready… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are really princesses who are waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and… — Sera Beak Copy Share Image
“ For among these winters there is one so endlessly winter that only by wintering through it will your heart survive. - Rilke” — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“«Da soli, in compagnia di un cadavere, non saremmo così abbandonati come da soli in mezzo agli alberi» Rilke” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“you are ever again the wave sweeping through all things RAINER MARIA RILKE, BOOK OF HOURS” — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
“Rilke used to say that no poet would mind going to gaol, since he would at least have time to explore the… — Clive James Copy Share Image
“And leaving you (there aren't words to untangle it) Your life, fearful and immense and blossoming, so that, sometimes frustrated, and sometimes… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“Surely all art is the result of having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
“Pa još se uopšte nisam privikao ovom svetu, koji mi se čini dobar. Šta ću u nekom drugom ? Tako bih rado… — Rilke Copy Share Image
“The Letters to a young poet illustrate perfectly the kindliness, the complexity, and at the same time the impersonality and remoteness of… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I think about the poet Rainer Maria Rilke who said that it's the questions that move us, not the answers. As a… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“The goal is not to answer these questions. The goal is to be present to them with all that we are. In… — Adam Bucko Copy Share Image
“As one puts a handkerchief before pent-in-breath- no: as one presses it against a wound out of which the whole of life,… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Lovers were not, Marina, are not permitted to know destruction so deeply. Must be as if they were new. Only their grave… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Afterward, Isabel drove me home and I shut myself in the study with Rilke, and I read and I wanted. And leaving… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“In his field, and with his means, Rilke carries out an operation that one could philosophically describe as the 'transformation of being… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
“Success had put me on the wrong track and I did not know that there is a kind of success worse than… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
“Znaš, često sam ti govorio o vevericama koje sam hranio u Italiji kad sam bio dete i za koje sam kupio veoma… — Rajner Marija Rilke Copy Share Image
“ [Rainer Maria Rilke] speaks of absorbing Earth's phenomena with the full frenzy of human relish and insight as our destiny: "It… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
“Moja borba, Lu, i opasnost koja se nadvija nada mnom sastoje se u tome da ne mogu da postanem realan, da uvek… — Rajner Marija Rilke Copy Share Image
“What the poet has to say to the torso of the supposed Apollo, however, is more than a note on an excursion… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
“As we know, Rilke, under the influence of Auguste Rodin, whom he had assisted between 1905 and 1906 in Meudon as a… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
“I think of published poets that you could know of...I think [Rainer Maria Rilke] probably has the most great published poems of… — Dan Schneider Copy Share Image
“What appears in the former statue of Apollo, however, cannot simply be equated with the Olympian of the same name, who had… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
“Do you remember…(doesn’t that appear in each of my letters?), do you remember that you spoke of how eagerly you experienced that… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“U Parizu sam proveo nedelje u Nacionalnoj biblioteci čitajući knjige davno željene, ali beleške koje sam tada pravio, ničemu mi ne služe,… — Rajner Marija Rilke Copy Share Image
“I receive the reward for my willingness to participate in the object-subject reversal in the form of a private illumination - in… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
“Rilke had a line...something about fishes. Or was that by someone else? Too much had already been written, too many pages, too… — Eric Gabriel Lehman Copy Share Image
“The reason for the existence of the perfection conjured up in these fourteen lines is that it possesses ... the authorization to… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
Basically what Salomé did with Rilke as a mentor was direct him toward the Russian Orthodox Church, so he could project his… — Laura Marling Copy Share Image
“In the face of our collective condition of danger and pervasive loss, Rilke summons us to be present to our world in… — Anita Barrows Copy Share Image
“Ah, Malte, mi tako koračamo kroz život i čini mi se da smo svi rasejani i zabevljani i da ne obraćamo pažnju… — Rilke Rainer-Maria Zapisi Maltea Lauridsa Brigea Copy Share Image
“How they are all about, these gentlemen In chamberlains' apparel, stocked and laced, Like night around their order's star and gem And… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“We know from accounts of Rilke's life that his stay in Rodin's workshops taught him how modern sculpture had advanced to the… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
“We of the here-and-now are not for a moment satisfied in the world of time, nor are we bound in it; we… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image