But you, divine poet, you sang on till the end as the swarm of rejected maenads attacked you, shrieking, you overpowered their… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
and I circle ten thousand years long; And I still don't know if I'm a falcon, a storm, or an unfinished song — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I am circling around God, around the ancient tower, and I have been circling for a thousand years, and I still don't… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Be forever dead in Eurydice-more gladly arise into the seamless life proclaimed in your song. Here, in the realm of decline, among… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I live my life in widening circle That reach out across the world. I may not ever complete the last one, But… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Songs of longing! And they will resound in my letters, just as they always have, sometimes loudly and sometimes secretly so that… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
My life is not this steeply sloping hour, in which you see me hurrying. Much stands behind me; I stand before it… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“And those who come together in the night and are entwined in rocking delight do an earnest work and gather sweetnesses, gather… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“In one creative thought a thousand forgotten nights of love come to life again and fill it with majesty and exaltation. And… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“You who never arrived in my arms, Beloved, who were lost from the start, I don't even know what songs would please… — 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