Now, as Rilke would say, let's eat us some effing panther…

May you eat an unfamiliar dessert in a strange land at least once every three years. May you wake up... and start dancing while…

— Rob Brezsny

“The critic said that once a year he read Kim; and he read Kim, it was plain, at whim: not to teach, not to…

— Randall Jarrell

I think about the poet Rainer Maria Rilke who said that it's the questions that move us, not the answers. As a writer, I…

— Terry Tempest Williams

“What appears in the former statue of Apollo, however, cannot simply be equated with the Olympian of the same name, who had to ensure…

— Peter Sloterdijk

“The goal is not to answer these questions. The goal is to be present to them with all that we are. In a way…

— Adam Bucko

“As Borges has taught us, all the books in the library are contemporary. Great poems are like granaries: they are always ready to enlarge…

— William H. Gass

“And you, Clara Westhoff, how simply and well you endured, lived through the experience, and made it a forward step in your young existence!…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Rainer Maria Rilke greeted and wrestled with the angels of his Duino Elegies in the solitude of a castle surrounded by white cliffs tall…

— Aberjhani

“ For among these winters there is one so endlessly winter that only by wintering through it will your heart survive. - Rilke”

— Maggie Stiefvater

“Rilke used to say that no poet would mind going to gaol, since he would at least have time to explore the treasure house…

— Clive James

“To što se moja peć opet zadimila pa sam morao da iziđem, to zaista nije nikakva nesreća. Što se osećam klonuo i prehlađen, nema…

— Rilke

“Ah, Malte, mi tako koračamo kroz život i čini mi se da smo svi rasejani i zabevljani i da ne obraćamo pažnju kako valja…

— Rilke Rainer-Maria Zapisi Maltea Lauridsa Brigea

My dad wanted to name me after Rainier Maria Rilke, the poet.

— Rainn Wilson

“U Parizu sam proveo nedelje u Nacionalnoj biblioteci čitajući knjige davno željene, ali beleške koje sam tada pravio, ničemu mi ne služe, jer tokom…

— Rajner Marija Rilke

“In his field, and with his means, Rilke carries out an operation that one could philosophically describe as the 'transformation of being into message'…

— Peter Sloterdijk