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
A birdsong can even, for a moment, make the whole world into a sky within us, because we feel that the bird… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Right in the difficult we must have our joys, our happiness, our dreams: there against the depth of this background, they stand… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Odd, the words: ‘while away the time’. How to hold it fast the harder thing. Who is not fearful: where is there… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“What goes on in your innermost being is worth all your love, this is what you must work on however you can… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
But learning-time is always a long, secluded time, and so loving, for a long while ahead and far on into life, is-solitude,… — 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
“And that is why it is so important to be solitary and attentive when one is sad: because the seemingly uneventful and… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Just a moment ..., I savour this ... ah, but it’s flown already. ... Only a bit of music, stamping in time,… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Ask no one to speak of you, not even contemptuously. And when time passes and you notice how your name is spreading… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I have patience for centuries in me and will live as though my time were very big. — 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
“There comes a time when we have deposited in it all our firstlings, all beginning, all confidence, the seeds of all that… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
One moment your life is a stone in you, and the next moment a star! — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
And we, spectators always, everywhere, looking at, never out of, everything! It fills us. We arrange it. It collapses. We re-arrange it,… — 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
