Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes

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• Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.

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  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Rainer Maria Rilke, John J. L. Mood (1994). “Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations”, p.31, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I am so glad you are here. It helps me realize how beautiful my world is.

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  Love, Beautiful, Appreciation

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  Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.

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  Love, Life, Beauty

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• Go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows.

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  Healing, Emotional, Flow

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

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• The highest form of love is to be the protector of another person’s solitude.

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  Love, Solitude, Introvert

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• If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable.

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  Inspiring, Nature, Simplicity

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2010). “Letters to a Young Poet”, p.34, New World Library

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  Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.

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  Love, Strength, Faith

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

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• Perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while you were sad.

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  Important, Deep Inside

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

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• Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Do not despair if the answers don't come immediately. Some answers are only revealed with the passage of time.

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  Inspirational, Life, Heart

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• God speaks to each of us as he makes us, then walks with us silently out of the night. These are the words we dimly hear: You, sent out beyond your recall, go to the limits of your longing. Embody me. Flare up like a flame and make big shadows I can move in. Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final. Don't let yourself lose me. Nearby is the country they call life. You will know it by its seriousness. Give me your hand.

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  Country, Moving, Night

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• Just keep going - no feeling is final.

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  Determination, Flare Up, Enjoy Life

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1996). “Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God”, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)

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• Your preparation for the real world is not in the answers you’ve learned, but in the questions you’ve learned how to ask yourself.

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  Real, Preparation, Answers

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• You must give birth to your images. They are the future waiting to be born.

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  Future, Giving, Waiting

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• There are moments in which a rose is more important than a piece of bread

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  Rose, Important, Pieces

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• Be of good courage all is before you, and time passed in the difficult is never lost...What is required of us is that we live the difficult and learn to deal with it. In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us.

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  Hands, Friendly, Lost

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• Our deepest fears are like dragons, guarding our deepest treasure.

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  Fear, Hippie, Dragons

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• and I circle ten thousand years long; And I still don't know if I'm a falcon, a storm, or an unfinished song

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  Song, Years, Circles

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• Don't take my devils away, because my angels may flee too.

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  Angel, Devil, May

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• There is only one journey. Going inside yourself.

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  Military, Healing, Journey

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• If we surrendered to earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees.

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  Nature, Tree, Earth

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2005). “In Praise of Mortality: Selections from Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus”, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)

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• The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.

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  Inspirational, Life, Greatness

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• I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.

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  Loneliness, Being Alone, Solitude

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1981). “Selected Poems”

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• But there is much beauty here, because there is much beauty everywhere.

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  Beauty Everywhere

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2013). “Letters to a Young Poet”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• Since I've learned to be silent, everything has come so much closer to me.

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  Learning, Silence, I've Learned

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• The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned within you.

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  Eye, Heart, Done

  "'Wendung' ('Turning Point')". Poem by Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by Stephen Mitchell, 1993.

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