You must give birth to your images. They are the future waiting to be born. — 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
“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
Be out of sync with your times for just one day, and you will see how much eternity you contain within you. — 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
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
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
Perhaps then, some day far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
My art is representational by choice…if the art of painting is to survive, it must describe and express people, their lives and… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“of all the disfigured and decaying Things, which, after all, are essentially nothing more than accidental remains from another time and from… — 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
“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
“Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them.… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“And yet they are in us, those who have long since passed away, as natural disposition, as burden on our destiny, as… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Isn't it time that these most ancient sorrows of ours grew fruitful? Time that we tenderly loosed ourselves from the loved one,… — 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
“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
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
“I’m too alone in the world, yet not alone enough to make each hour holy. I’m too small in the world, yet… — 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
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
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
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
“We of the here-and-now are not for a moment satisfied in the world of time, nor are we bound in it; we… — 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
“Does time really exist, time the destroyer? When will it break down the castle into mere fragments? When will this heart which… — 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
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
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
This is tha miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, tha more they possess. — 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
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
“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 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
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
“There is here no measuring with time, no year matters, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means, not reckoning and… — 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
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
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