You darkness, that I come from, I love you more than all the fires that fence in the world, for the fire… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
And isn't the whole world yours? For how often you set it on fire with your love and saw it blaze and… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Physical pleasure is a sensual experience no different from pure seeing or the pure sensation with which a fine fruit fills the… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
To all that is used-up, and to all the muffled and dumb creatures in the world's full reserve, the unsayable sums, joyfully… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Do continue to believe that with your feeling and with your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Whoever you are: in the evening step out of your room, where you know everything; yours is the last house before the… — 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
Speaking of August Rodin: He raised his world above us in an immense arc, and made it a part of nature. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
His vision, from the constantly passing bars, has grown so weary that it cannot hold anything else. It seems to him there… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
The thought of being a creator, of engendering, of shaping is nothing without the continuous great confirmation and embodiment in the world,… — 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 even if you were in some prison, the walls of which let none of the sounds of the world come to… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
The artist's task consists of making one thing of many, and a world from the smallest part of a thing. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I am so glad you are here. It helps me realize how beautiful my world is. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
You darkness, that I come from, I love you more than all the fires that fence in the world. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Perhaps the great renewal of the world will consist of this, that man and woman, freed of all confused feelings and desires,… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Quiet friend who has come so far, feel how your breathing makes more space around you. Let this darkness be a bell… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
If there is nothing you can share with other people, try to be close to Things, they will not abandon you; and… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
That is at bottom the only courage that is demanded of us: to have courage for the most strange, the most singular,… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I am too alone in the world and not alone enough to make every moment holy. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Animals see the unobstructed world with their whole eyes. But our eyes, turned back upon themselves, encircle and seek to snare the… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
The creator must be a world for himself and must find everything in himself and in Nature, to whom his whole life… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I would like to sing someone to sleep, to sit beside someone and be there. I would like to rock you and… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
No, no, one can imagine nothing in the world, not the least thing. Everything is composed of so many isolated details that… — 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
