Tasks Quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke

9 Tasks quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke

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Rilke’s poetic view of tasks intertwines duty with artistic yearning. These nine brief lines offer a window into his nuanced take on labor and inspiration.

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“but those tasks that have been entrusted to us are difficult; almost everything serious is difficult; and everything is serious.”

Rainer Maria Rilke

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Our task is to listen to the news that is always arriving out of silence.

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The artist's task consists of making one thing of many, and a world from the smallest part of a thing.

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Our task is to take this earth so deeply and wholly into ourselves that it will resurrect within our being.

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To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of…

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I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each shall stand guard over the solitude…

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we are continually overflowing toward those who preceded us, toward our origin, and toward those who seemingly come after us. ... It…

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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test…

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And now let us believe in a long year that is given to us, new, untouched, full of things that have never…

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