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All things want to float.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

I don't want to stay folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

I do not want to be folded for where I am folded, there I am a lie.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

I want to unfold. Let no place in me hold itself closed, for where I am closed, I am false...

— Rainer Maria Rilke

I want to love the things as no one has thought to love them.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

One of the most difficult tests for the creator: he must always remain unconscious, unaware of his best virtues, if he doesn't…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

And you should not let yourself be confused in your solitude by the fact that there is something in you that wants…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

I want to unfold. I don’t want to stay folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

The flower bends when the wind wants it to, and you must become like that-that is, filled with deep # trust .

— Rainer Maria Rilke

What we fight with is so small, and when we win, it makes us small. What we want is to be defeated,…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

For bel.i.eve me, the more one is, the richer is all one experiences. And whoever wants to have deep love in his…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

We discover that we do not know our role; we look for a mirror; we want to remove our make-up and take…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Why should you want to give up a child's wise not-understanding in exchange for defensiveness and scorn, since not-understanding is, after all,…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“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

Think... of the world you carry within you, and call this thinking whatever you want to: a remembering of your own childhood…

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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

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

And these things that keep alive on departure know that you praise them; transient, they look to us, the most transient, to…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

You see, I want a lot. Perhaps I want everything the darkness that comes with every infinite fall and the shivering blaze…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Art too is just a way of living, and however one lives, one can, without knowing, prepare for it; in everything real…

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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

“And your doubt can become a good quality if you train it. It must become knowing , it must become criticism. Ask…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

I am so afraid of people's words.They describe so distinctly everything: And this they call dog and that they call house, here…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

So it's back once more, back up the slope. Why do they always ruin my rope with their cuts? I felt so…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

We have no reason to mistrust our world, for it is not against us. Has it terrors, they are our terrors; has…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

My loving friend, you see, my life was never given a foundation, no one was able to imagine what it would want…

— Rainer Maria Rilke