I do not want to be folded for where I am folded, there I am a lie. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I want to unfold. Let no place in me hold itself closed, for where I am closed, I am false... — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I don't want to stay folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The flower bends when the wind wants it to, and you must become like that-that is, filled with deep # trust . — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.” — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
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 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. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
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 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
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 Copy Share Image
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 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
“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
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“And your doubt can become a good quality if you train it. It must become knowing , it must become criticism. Ask… — 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 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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Art too is just a way of living, and however one lives, one can, without knowing, prepare for it; in everything real… — 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
