“...until summer becomes ein Zimmer in einem Traum -- a room in a dream.” — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
“Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror,” Rilke wrote. Nearly” — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
“Just keep going. No feeling is final. —Rainer Maria Rilke” — Hillary Rodham Clinton Copy Share Image
“Now, as Rilke would say, let's eat us some effing panther and swan, shall we?” — Jason Bredle Copy Share Image
“think: the hero prolongs himself, even his falling was only a pretext for being, his latest rebirth.” — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Rilke said that art can come only out of inner necessity. I write because I must. Or because I cannot not write. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
Rilke wrote: 'These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their… — Gaston Bachelard 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
“ 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
“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
Rilke says: Verweilung, auch am Verstrautesten nicht, ist uns gegeben - We are not allowed to linger, even with what is most… — 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
Before I was a parent I was struck by Rilke, who, as you know, didn't go to his daughter's wedding because he… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
“In the midst of the ubiquitous dealings with prostituted signs, the thing-poem was capable of opening up the prospect of returning to… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
Rainer Maria Rilke was admittedly not a Dockers tagger, but a sort of European equivalent: a German poet - in many respects,… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
“Alba, it's okay,' Clare says softly. She looks at me. 'Say the poem about lovers on the carpet.' I blank, and then… — Audrey Niffenegger 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
“Mora biti da je to bilo jedno od onih ranih jutara kakvih ima u julu, sa onim mladim, odmornim časovima u kojima… — Rilke Rainer-Maria Zapisi Maltea Lauridsa Brigea 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Rainer Maria Rilke sacrificed everything For his art he dedicated himself To the Great Work I admired his single-mindedness All through my… — Edward Hirsch 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
“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