I would like to step out of my heart and go walking beneath the enormous sky. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Do not, do not, do not books for ever hammer at people like perpetual bells? When, between two books, silent sky appears:… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
A birdsong can even, for a moment, make the whole world into a sky within us, because we feel that the bird… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Ah, not to be cut off, not through the slightest partition shut out from the law of the stars. The inner --… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
The deep parts of my life pour onward, as if the river shores were opening out. I feel closer to what language… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
There would have to be bread, some rich, whole-grain bread and zwieback, and perhaps on a long, narrow dish some pale Westphalian… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Whoever you are: in the evening step out of your room, where you know everything; yours is the last house before the… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
No, we don't accomplish our love in a single year as the flowers do; an immemorial sap flows up through our arms… — 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
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
