“Out of infinite longings rise finite deeds like weak fountains, falling back just in time and trembling. And yet, what otherwise remains… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
At no other time (than autumn) does the earth let itself be inhaled in one smell, the ripe earth; in a smell… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his reflective processes,… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“How much there is to suffer. When was time enough to pay attention to our lighter emotions? And still I recognize, better… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“I believe that one is never more just than at those moments when one admires unreservedly and with absolute devotion.” — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“There are a large number of people in the room, but one is unaware of them. They are in the books. At… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Each time we cast our view toward distances that have not yet been touched, we transform not only the present moment and… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Think... of the world you carry within you, and call this thinking whatever you want to: a remembering of your own childhood… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I don’t want to stand before you like a thing, shrewd, secretive. I want my own will, and I want simply to… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Turn your attentions to it. Try to raise up the sunken feelings of this enormous past; your personality will grow stronger, your… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“I am too alone in the world, and yet not alone enough to make every moment holy. I am too tiny in… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“I have a notion that, at big fires, a moment of extreme suspense can sometimes occur, when the jets of water slacken… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Why don't you conceive of God as an ally who is coming, who has been approaching since time began, the one who… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“And this is why it is so important to be lonely and attentive when one is sad: because the apparently uneventful and… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Lord, it is time. The summer was very big. Lay thy shadow on the sundials, and on the meadows let the winds… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
He who does not at some time, with definite determination consent to the terribleness of life, or even exalt in it, never… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Music: breathing of statues. Perhaps: silence of paintings. You language where all language ends. You time standing vertically on the motion of… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“You, you only, exist. We pass away, till at last, our passing is so immense that you arise: beautiful moment, in all… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Do not despair if the answers don't come immediately. Some answers are… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“When I think about little girls in the moment of turning into big girls (it is no slow timid development but something… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“I want my own will, and I want simply to be with my will, as it goes toward action. And in the… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Whom will you cry to, heart? More and more lonely, your path struggles on through incomprehensible mankind. All the more futile perhaps… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
You must give birth to your images. They are the future waiting to be born. Fear not the strangeness you feel. The… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
God... sat down for a moment when the dog was finished in order to watch it... and to know that it was… — 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
