The artist's experience lies so unbelievably close to the sexual, to its pain and its pleasure, that the two phenomena are really… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
All companionship can consist in only the strengthening of neighboring solitudes, giving oneself is by nature harmful to companionship: for when a… — 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
My life is not this steeply sloping hour, in which you see me hurrying. Much stands behind me; I stand before it… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each shall stand guard over the solitude… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
That’s love: Two lonely persons keep each other safe and touch each other and talk to each other. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I am the rest between two notes which are somehow always in discord. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Take your well-disciplined strengths, stretch them between the two great opposing poles, because inside human beings is where God learns. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Do not, do not, do not books for ever hammer at people like perpetual bells? When, between two books, silent sky appears:… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and great each other. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
A merging of two people is an impossibility, and where it seems to exist, it is a hemming-in, a mutual consent that… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Yet everything that touches us, me and you, takes us together like a violin's bow, which draws one voice out of two… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
There are quite a number of people in the reading-room; but one is not aware of them. They are inside the books.… — 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
