Rilke Quotes

15 quotes by 12 authors

True myths may serve for thousands of years as an inexhaustible source of intellectual speculation, religious joy, ethical inquiry, and artistic renewal. The real mystery… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Grief does not seem to me to be a choice. Whether or not you think grief has value, you will lose what matters to you.… — Mark Doty
If Rilke cut himself shaving, he would bleed poetry. — Stephen Spender
May you eat an unfamiliar dessert in a strange land at least once every three years. May you wake up... and start dancing while you're… — Rob Brezsny
We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's… — George Steiner
My dad wanted to name me after Rainier Maria Rilke, the poet. — Rainn Wilson
As Rilke observed, love requires a progressive shortening of the senses: I can see you for miles; I can hear you for blocks, I can… — William H. Gass
Afterward, Isabel drove me home and I shut myself in the study with Rilke, and I read and I wanted. And leaving you (there arent… — Maggie Stiefvater
Rilke wrote: 'These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too… — Gaston Bachelard
This is Rilke. I wish I had written it for you. — Maggie Stiefvater
Slowly but surely I have been soaking Rilke up these last few months: the man, his work and his life. And that is probably the… — Etty Hillesum
I missed the sound of her shuffling her homework while I listened to music on her bed. I missed the cold of her feet against… — Maggie Stiefvater
Rilke says: Verweilung, auch am Verstrautesten nicht, ist uns gegeben - We are not allowed to linger, even with what is most intimate. — Maggie Stiefvater
It is a strange and wonderful fact to be here, walking around in a body, to have a whole world within you and a world… — John O'Donohue
Rainer Maria Rilke was admittedly not a Dockers tagger, but a sort of European equivalent: a German poet - in many respects, a charlatan masquerading… — Richard Flanagan

Who Wrote These Rilke Quotes

12 authors contributed a total of 15 Rilke Quotes as follows: