“Do you remember…(doesn’t that appear in each of my letters?), do you remember that you spoke of how eagerly you experienced that… — 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 conscious reflection,… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“How should we be able to forget those ancient myths that are at the beginning of all peoples, the myths about dragons… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
In this there is no measuring with time, a year doesn’t matter, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means: not… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
You must give birth to your images. They are the future waiting to be born. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Lovers were not, Marina, are not permitted to know destruction so deeply. Must be as if they were new. Only their grave… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I would like to sing someone to sleep, to sit beside someone and be there. I would like to rock you and… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I live not in dreams but in contemplation of a reality that is perhaps the future. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Irony: Don't let yourself be controlled by it, especially during uncreative moments. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
You, God, who live next door-- If at times, through the long night, I trouble you with my urgent knocking-- this is… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“But now that so much is changing, isn't it time for us to change? Couldn't we try to gradually develop and slowly… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess of… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“They grope before them like blind people and find each the other as they would a door. Almost like children that dread… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
She followed slowly, taking a long time, As though there were some obstacles in the way; And yet: as though, once it… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Here is the time for the sayable, here is its home. Speak and attest. More than ever the things we can live… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I want to unfold. I don't want to stay folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie, and… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Be of good courage all is before you, and time passed in the difficult is never lost...What is required of us is… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“It’s true enough, of course, no longer to live on earth is strange, to abandon customs barely mastered yet, not to interpret… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
There are moments in which a rose is more important than a piece of bread — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
A billion stars go spinning through the night, blazing high above your head. But in you is the presence that will be,… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Whoever has no house now will not build one anymore/Whoever is alone now will remain so for a long time/will stay up,… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Love the questions themselves...Live the questions now and have confidence that someday far into the future, [I will live my] way into… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict… — 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
