Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
And do not change. Do not divert your love from visible things. But go on loving what is good, simple and ordinary; animals and things and flowers, and keep the balance true.
Everything that makes more of you than you have ever been, even in your best hours, is right. Every intensification is good.
Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.
Earth, my dearest, oh believe me, you no longer need your springtimes to win me over...Unspeakably, I have belonged to you, from the flush.
God speaks to each of us as he makes us, then walks with us silently out of the night.
Right in the difficult we must have our joys, our happiness, our dreams: there against the depth of this background, they stand out, there for the first time we see how beautiful they are.
Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
Destiny itself is like a wonderful wide tapestry in which every thread is guided by an unspeakable tender hand, placed beside another thread and held and carried by a hundred others.
Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
Fame — the aggregate of all the misunderstandings that collect around a new name.
The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
As bees gather honey, so we collect what is sweetest out of all things and build.
Perhaps then, some day far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.
Look, we don't love like flowers with only one season behind us; when we love, a sap older than memory rises in our arms.
Yield not thy neck To fortune's yoke, but let thy dauntless mind Still ride in triumph over all mischance. In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us.
I think of you often, dear, and with such concentrated wishes that it really must help you in some way.
For poems are not, as people think, simply emotions (one has emotions early enough)-they are experiences.
There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.
Deeply I go down into myself. My god is Dark and like a webbing made of a hundred roots that drink in silence.
A birdsong can even, for a moment, make the whole world into a sky within us, because we feel that the bird does not distinguish between its heart and the world's.
I am circling around God, around the ancient tower, and I have been circling for a thousand years, and I still don't know if I am a falcon, or a storm, or a great song.
As people used to be wrong about the motion of the sun, so they are still wrong about the motion of the future. The future stands still, it is we who move in infinite space.
