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• I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language.

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  Book, Heart, Trying

  "Letters to a Young Poet". Book by Rainer Maria Rilke. Letter Four (July 16, 1903), 1929.

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• But because truly being here is so much; because everything here apparently needs us, this fleeting world, which in some strange way keeps calling to us. Us, the most fleeting of all.

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  Fleeting World, Needs, Calling

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2014). “The Duino Elegies & The Sonnets to Orpheus: A Dual Language Edition”, p.55, Vintage

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• If you will cling to Nature, to the simple in Nature, to the little things that hardly anyone sees, and that can so unexpectedly become big and beyond measuring; if you have this love of inconsiderable things and seek quite simply, as one who serves, to win the confidence of what seems poor: then everything will become easier, more coherent and somehow more conciliatory for you, not in your intellect, perhaps, which lags marveling behind, but in your inmost consciousness, waking and cognizance.

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  Nature, Winning, Simple

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• Bound by conventions, people tend to reach for what is easy. Here we must be unafraid of what is difficult. For all living beings in nature must unfold in their particular way and become themselves despite all opposition.

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  People, Way, Easy

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• For poems are not, as people think, simply emotions (one has emotions early enough)-they are experiences.

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  Thinking, People, Emotion

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2013). “The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke”, p.111, Vintage

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• If you trust in Nature, in the small Things that hardly anyone sees and that can so suddenly become huge, immeasurable; if you have this love for what is humble and try very simply, as someone who serves, to win the confidence of what seems poor, then everything will become easier for you.

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  Humble, Winning, Trying

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

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• If my devils are to leave me, I'm afraid my angels will take flight as well.

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  Angel, Devil, Flight

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• Whoever has no house now, will never have one. Whoever is alone will stay alone, will sit, read, write long letters through the evening, and wander on the boulevards, up and down, restlessly, while dry leaves are blowing.

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  Writing, Long, House

  Rainer Maria Rilke, “Autumn Day”

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• The only sadnesses that are dangerous and unhealthy are the ones that we carry around in public in order to drown them out with the noise.

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  Sadness, Order, Noise

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

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• We are unutterably alone essentially, especially in the things most intimate and most important.

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  Important, Intimate

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2010). “Letters to a Young Poet”, p.18, New World Library

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• Only the individual who is solitary is like a thing placed under profound laws, and when he goes out into the morning that is just beginning, or looks out into the evening that is full of happening, and if he feels what is going on there, then all status drops from him as from a dead man, though he stands in the midst of sheer life.

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  Morning, Men, Law

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• Were it possible for us to see further than our knowledge reaches, and yet a little way beyond the outworks of our divinings, perhaps we would endure our sadnesses with greater confidence than our joys. For they are the moments when something new has entered into us, something unknown; our feelings grow mute in shy perplexity, everything in us withdraws, a stillness comes, and the new, which no one knows, stands in the midst of it and is silent.

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  Sadness, Joy, Feelings

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• The flower bends when the wind wants it to, and you must become like that-that is, filled with deep #‎ trust .

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  Flower, Wind, Want

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• Thus we live, forever taking leave.

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  Spiritual, Forever, Dying

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1975). “University of North Carolina Studies in the Germanic Languages and Literatures”

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• Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force its sap and stands confidence in the storms of spring without fear that after them may come no summer

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  Summer, Spring, Mean

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• Girls, there are poets who learn from you to say, what you, in your aloneness, are; and they learn through you to live distantness, as the evenings through the great stars become accustomed to eternity.

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  Girl, Stars, Evening

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2014). “The Book of Images”, p.17, North Point Press

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• At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and again it is the best thing in life that each should have everything in himself; his fate, his future, his whole expanse and world.

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  Life, Fate, Should Have

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1969). “Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910”, p.149, W. W. Norton & Company

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• And you should not let yourself be confused in your solitude by the fact that there is something in you that wants to move out of it.

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  Confused, Moving, Solitude

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

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• You, God, who live next door - If at times, through the long night, I trouble you with my urgent knocking - this is why: I hear you breathe so seldom. I know you're all alone in that room. If you should be thirsty, there's no one to get you a glass of water. I wait listening, always. Just give me a sign! I'm right here... Sen komşu tanrı, Uzun geceler bazen, Kapına vura vura uyandırıyorsam seni Solumanı seyrek duyduğumdandır... Bilirim, yalnızsın odanda. Sana birşey gerekse kimse yok, Bir yudum su versin aradığında. Hep dinlerim, yeter ki bir ses edin, Öyle yakınım sana.

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  Night, Glasses, Doors

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• Be patient with all that is unsolved in your life. Learn to love the questions themselves, until some distant day, without your knowing, you will have lived into the answers.

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  Knowing, Answers, Patient

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• [A]t bottom, and just in the deepest and most important things, we are unutterably alone, and for one person to be able to advise or even help another, a lot must happen, a lot must go well, a whole constellation of things must come right in order once to succeed.

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  Order, Important, Able

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• My eyes already touch the sunny hill. Going far ahead of the road I have begun. So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp; it has inner light, even from a distance- and charges us, even if we do not reach it, into something else, which, hardly sensing it, we already are; a gesture waves us on answering our own wave... but what we feel is the wind in our faces.

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  Distance, Eye, Light

  Rainer Maria Rilke, “A Walk”

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• Lord, it is time. The summer was very big. Lay thy shadow on the sundials, and on the meadows let the winds go loose. Command the last fruits that they shall be full; give them another two more southerly days, press them on to fulfillment and drive the last sweetiness into the heavenly wine.

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  Summer, Wine, Wind

  Rainer Maria Rilke, M. D. Herter Norton (1993). “Translations from the Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke”, p.71, W. W. Norton & Company

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• What we do battle with is so small, what battles us is so large.

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  Struggle, Battle

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• Life is cut to allow for growth ... one may vigorously put on weight before one fills it out entirely.

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  Cutting, Growth, Weight

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