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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  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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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  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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• 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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• 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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• Your solitude will expand and become a place where you can live in the twilight, where the noise of other people passes, far in the distance.

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  Distance, Twilight, People

  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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• When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its great wide sounds, cleanses me with its noise, and imposes a rhythm upon everthing in me that is bewildered and confused.

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  Beach, Confused, Ocean

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1969). “Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910”, p.94, W. W. Norton & Company

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• And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been

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  New Year, Nature, New Beginnings

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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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• I want to unfold. Let no place in me hold itself closed, for where I am closed, I am false.

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  Self, Want

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

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• Be out of sync with your times for just one day, and you will see how much eternity you contain within you.

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  One Day, Eternity, Sync

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2007). “Letters on Life: New Prose Translations”, p.43, Modern Library

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• Let everything happen to you Beauty and terror Just keep going No feeling is final

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  Inspirational, Compassion, Flare Up

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• This is in the end the only kind of courage that is required of us: the courage to face the strangest, most unusual, most inexplicable experiences that can meet us.

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  Faces, Kind, Unusual

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

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• you are not too old and it is not too late to dive into your increasing depths where life calmly gives out it's own secret

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  Inspirational, Life, Hoe

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1981). “Selected Poems”

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• To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. Love is a high inducement to the individual to ripen, to become something in himself, to become world for himself for another's sake, it is a great exacting claim upon him, something that chooses him out and calls him to vast things.

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  Philosophy, Love Is, Preparation

  "Letters to a Young Poet". Book by Rainer Maria Rilke. Letter Seven (May 14, 1904), 1929.

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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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• Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.

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  Perspective, Sexually, Conditions

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