Beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we are still just able to endure, and we are so awed because… — 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
Children are still the way you were as a child, sad and happy in just the same way-and if you think of… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Yield not thy neck To fortune's yoke, but let thy dauntless mind Still ride in triumph over all mischance. In the difficult… — 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
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
They, who passed away long ago, still exist in us, as predisposition, as burden upon our fate, as murmuring blood, and as… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Some day when I lose you, will you still be able to sleep, without me to whisper over you like a crown… — 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
And yet, for some time now I have believed that it is our own force, all our own force that is still… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
We discover that we do not know our role; we look for a mirror; we want to remove our make-up and take… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
for sometime now I have believed that it is our own force, all our own force that is still too great for… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Who is there today who still cares about a well-finished death? No one. Even the rich, who could after all afford this… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Losing too is still ours; and even forgetting still has a shape in the kingdom of transformation. When something's let go of,… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“O trees of life, O when are you wintering? We are not unified. We have no instincts like those of migratory birds.… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
They all have tired mouths and bright seamless souls. And a longing (as for sin) sometimes haunts their dreams. They are almost… — 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
I am so afraid of people's words.They describe so distinctly everything: And this they call dog and that they call house, here… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
FALLING STARS: Do you remember still the falling stars that like swift horses through the heavens raced and suddenly leaped across the… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
And still it is not enough to have memories. One must be able to forget them when they are many, and one… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
You, Beloved, who are all the gardens I have ever gazed at, longing. An open window in a country house-- , and… — 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
Everything in the world of things and animals is still filled with happening, which you can take part in. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
If there is nothing you can share with other people, try to be close to Things, they will not abandon you; and… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
If only we arrange our life according to that principle which counsels us that we must hold to the difficult, then that… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
And even if you were in some prison, the walls of which let none of the sounds of the world come to… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels'hierarchies? and even if one of thempressed me against his heart: I… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
At no other time (than autumn) does the earth let itself be inhaled in one smell, the ripe earth; in a smell that is… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share
“That is why the sadness passes: the new presence inside us, the presence that has been added, has entered our heart, has gone into… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share
“Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms, like books written in a… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share
![“I live my life in widening circle That reach out across the world. I may not ever complete the last one, But I give myself to it. I circle around God, that primordial tower. I have been circling for thousands of years, And I still don't know: am I a falcon, A storm, or a great song? [I, 2]” quote by Rainer Maria Rilke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/542/rainer-maria-rilke-193_circles_i-live-my-life-in-widening-circle-that-r_2212316.jpg)
