Arcs Quote by Rainer Maria Rilke

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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

To be here is immense.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Sin is the most wonderfully roundabout path to God”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Swells, Marina? we ocean, depths, Marina? we sky!

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“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

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

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

— Rainer Maria Rilke