Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes - Page 11

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• Your life will still find its own paths from there, and that they may be good, rich, and wide is what I wish for you, more than I can say.

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  Life, Destiny, Wish

  "Letters to a Young Poet".

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• But learning-time is always a long, secluded time, and so loving, for a long while ahead and far on into life, is-solitude, intensified and deepened loneness for him who loves.

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  Long, Solitude, Life Is

  Rainer Maria Rilke, John J. L. Mood (1994). “Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations”, p.38, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Every intensification is good, if it is in your entire blood, if it isn't intoxication or muddiness, but joy which you can see into, clear to the bottom.

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  Blood, Joy, Intoxication

  "Letters to a Young Poet" by Rainer Maria Rilke, Letter Nine (4 November 1904), 1934.

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• Why don't you think of [God] as the one who is coming, who has been approaching from all eternity... the ultimate fruit of a tree whose leaves we are.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  God, Hope, Thinking

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• Most people have turned their solutions toward what is easy and toward the easiest side of the easy; but it is clear that we must trust in what is difficult; everything alive trusts in it.

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  Inspirational, People, Alive

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

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• It is so often on the name of a misdeed that a life goes to pieces, not the nameless and personal action itself, which was perhaps a perfectly definite necessity of that life and would have been absorbed by it without effort.

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  Names, Effort, Pieces

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• How I will cherish you then, you grief-torn nights! Had I only received you, inconsolable sisters, on more abject knees, only buried myself with more abandon in your loosened hair. How we waste our afflictions! We study them, stare out beyond them into bleak continuance, hoping to glimpse some end. Whereas they're really our wintering foliage, our dark greens of meaning, one of the seasons of the clandestine year -- ; not only a season --: they're site, settlement, shelter, soil, abode.

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  Grief, Dark, Night

  Rainer Maria Rilke, Lou Andreas-Salomé (2008). “Rilke and Andreas-Salomé: A Love Story in Letters”, p.297, W. W. Norton & Company

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• If no one else, the dying must notice how unreal, how full of pretense, is all that we accomplish here, where nothing is allowed to be itself.

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  Dying, Accomplish, Unreal

  Duino Elegies no. 4 (written 1912) (translation by Stephen Mitchell)

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• Truly it is glorious, our being here.

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  Life, Glorious

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• To have a childhood means to live a thousand lives before the one.

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  Mean, Childhood, Thousand

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2007). “Letters on Life: New Prose Translations”, p.77, Modern Library

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• I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me.

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  Real, Power, Giving

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

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• If only we arrange our life according to that principle which counsels us that we must hold to the difficult, then that which now still seems to us the most alien will become what we most trust and find most faithful.

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  Faithful, Principles, Aliens

  Rainer Maria Rilke, John J. L. Mood (1994). “Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations”, p.119, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Go into yourself and test the deeps in which your life takes rise; at its source you will find the answer to the question whether you must create. Accept it, just as it sounds, without inquiring into it. Perhaps it will turn out that you are called to be an artist. Then take that destiny upon yourself and bear it, its burden and its greatness, without ever asking what reward might come from outside

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  Artist, Greatness, Destiny

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• Irony: Don't let yourself be controlled by it, especially during uncreative moments.

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  Irony, Moments, Cynicism

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

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• I am like a child who awakes At the light, so safe and secureFree from night's fears when dawn breaks, In Thee I am ever secure.

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  God, Children, Night

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• Be-and yet know the great void where all things begin, the infinite source of your own most intense vibration, so that, this once, you may give it your perfect assent.

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  Giving, Perfect, Joy

  Rainer Maria Rilke, “The Sonnets To Orpheus: Book 2: XIII”

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• Whoever now makes himself bigger, freer and more human in his own existence, is doing his part toward peace, — as yet it must be worked at in an inward direction, not until a few have it all big and ready within them can it let itself be brought into the world.

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  Existence, Humans

  "Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910".

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• There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.

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  Faces, Humans, Persons

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1984). “Prose and poetry”, Burns & Oates

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• What keeps you from... living your life as a painful and lovely day in the history of a great pregnancy?

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  Pregnancy, Live Your Life, Lovely

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

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• I prayed to rediscover my childhood, and it has come back, and I feel that it is just as difficult as it used to be, and that growing older has served no purpose at all.

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  Childhood, Purpose, Growing

  1910 DieAufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge (translated by Stephen Mitchell inThe Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1989).

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• Truly to sing, that is a different breath.

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  Music, Piano, Different

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• We wasters of sorrows! How we stare away into sad endurance beyond them, trying to foresee their end! Whereas they are nothing else than our winter foliage, our sombre evergreen, one of the seasons of our interior year.

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  Winter, Years, Sorrow

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1984). “Prose and poetry”, Burns & Oates

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• The leaves are falling, falling as if from far up,as if orchards were dying high in space.Each leaf falls as if it were motioning "no."And tonight the heavy earth is fallingaway from all other stars in the loneliness.We're all falling. This hand here is falling.And look at the other one. It's in them all.And yet there is Someone, whose handsinfinitely calm, holding up all this falling.

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  Stars, Loneliness, Fall

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1981). “Selected Poems”

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• I am learning to see. I don't know why it is, but everything enters me more deeply and doesn't stop where it once used to. I have an interior that I never knew of... What's the use of telling someone that I am changing? If I'm changing, I am no longer who I was; and if I am something else, it's obvious that I have no acquaintances. And I can't possibly write to strangers.

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  Writing, Use, Stranger

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• In one creative thought a thousand forgotten nights of love revive, filling it with sublimity and exaltation.

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  Night, Creative, Exaltation

  Rainer Maria Rilke, John J. L. Mood (1994). “Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations”, p.42, W. W. Norton & Company

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