Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes - Page 13

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• Fig tree, how long it's been full meaning for me, the way you almost entirely omit to flower and into the seasonably-resolute fruit uncelebratedly thrust your purest secret. Like the tube of a fountain, your bent bough drives the sap downwards and up: and it leaps from its sleep, scarce waking, into the joy of its sweetest achievement.

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  Flower, Sleep, Long

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• Oh longing for places that were not Cherished enough in that fleeting hour How I long to make good from afar The forgotten gesture, the additional act.

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  Long, Fleeting, Gestures

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• Fate loves to invent patterns and designs. Its difficulty lies in complexity. But life itself is difficult because of its simplicity. It has only a few things of a grandeur not fit for us.

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  Life, Lying, Fate

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

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• Read as little as possible of literary criticism - such things are either partisan opinions, which have become petrified and meaningless, hardened and empty of life, or else they are just clever word-games, in which one view wins today, and tomorrow the opposite view. Works of art are of an infinite solitude, and no means of approach is so useless as criticism.

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  Art, Clever, Mean

  "Letters to a Young Poet". Book by Rainer Maria Rilke. Letter Three (April 23, 1903), 1929.

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• Perhaps everything terrifying is deep down a helpless thing that needs our help.

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  Needs, Helping, Deep Down

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• a good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude

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  Inspirational, Anniversary, Marriage

  Rainer Maria Rilke, John J. L. Mood (1994). “Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations”, p.34, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Verses are not, as people think, feelings (those one has early enough) -- they are experiences. For the sake of a verse one must see many cities, men, and things, one must know the animals feel how birds fly, and know the gesture with which the little flowers open in the morning.

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  Morning, Flower, Animal

  Rainer Maria Rilke, John J. L. Mood (1994). “Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations”, p.112, W. W. Norton & Company

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• There would have to be bread, some rich, whole-grain bread and zwieback, and perhaps on a long, narrow dish some pale Westphalian ham laced with strips of white fat like an evening sky with bands of clouds. There would be some tea ready to be drunk, yellowish golden tea in glasses with silver saucers, giving off a faint fragrance.

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  Clouds, Glasses, Sky

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• Physical pleasure is a sensual experience no different from pure seeing or the pure sensation with which a fine fruit fills the tongue; it is a great unending experience, which is given us, a knowing of the world, the fullness and the glory of all knowing. And not our acceptance of it is bad; the bad thing is that most people misuse and squander this experience and apply it as a stimulant at the tired spots of their lives and as distraction instead of a rallying toward exalted moments.

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  Tired, Acceptance, Knowing

  Rainer Maria Rilke, John J. L. Mood (1994). “Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations”, p.41, W. W. Norton & Company

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• And we, spectators always, everywhere, looking at, never out of, everything! It fills us. We arrange it. It collapses. We re-arrange it, and collapse ourselves. Who's turned us round like this, so that we always, do what we may, retain the attitude of someone who's departing? Just as he, on the last hill, that shows him all his valley for the last time, will turn and stop and linger, we live our lives, for ever taking leave.

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  Attitude, Valleys, May

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1977). “Possibility of Being: A Selection of Poems”, p.88, New Directions Publishing

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• It almost seems as if autumn were the true creator, more creative than the spring, which is too even-toned, more creative when it comes with its will-to-change and shatters the much too ready-made, self-satisfied and really almost bourgeois-complacent image of summer.

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  Summer, Spring, Autumn

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1946). “Selected Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1902-1926”

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• At no other time (than autumn) does the earth let itself be inhaled in one smell, the ripe earth; in a smell that is in no way inferior to the smell of the sea, bitter where it borders on taste, and more honeysweet where you feel it touching the first sounds. Containing depth within itself, darkness, something of the grave almost.

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  Autumn, Sea, Smell

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• That is the principal thing-not to remain with the dream, with the intention, with the being-in-the-mood, but always forcibly to convert it all into things.

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  Dream, Mood, Intention

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1969). “Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910”, p.85, W. W. Norton & Company

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• No one can advise or help you - no one. There is only one thing you should do. Go into yourself. Search for the reason that bids you write, find out wether it spreading out its root in the deepest places of your heart...Delve into yourself for a deep answer

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  Writing, Heart, Roots

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• sometimes a man stands up during supper and walks outdoors, and keeps on walking, because of a church that stands somewhere in the East. And his children say blessings on him as if he were dead. And another man, who remains inside his own house, stays there, inside the dishes and in the glasses, so that his children have to go far out into the world toward that same church, which he forgot.

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  Children, Blessing, Men

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1981). “Selected Poems”

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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; like diseases that are treated superficially and foolishly, they just withdraw and after a short interval break out again all the more terribly; and gather inside us and are life, are life that is unlived, rejected, lost, life that we can die of.

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  Sadness, Order, Break Out

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

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• A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it.

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  Art, Judging, Creative

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

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• The necessary thing is after all but this; solitude, great inner solitude. Going into oneself for hours meeting no one - this one must be able to attain.

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  Solitude, Able, Hours

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• Never believe fate is more than the condensation of childhood.

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  Believe, Fate, Destiny

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2013). “Duino Elegies/Duineser Elegien: A Dual-Language Book”, p.53, Courier Corporation

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• What is needed is, in the end, simply this: solitude, great inner solitude.

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  Solitude, Ends, Needed

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2012). “Letters to a Young Poet”, p.27, Courier Corporation

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• I live my life in widening circle That reach out across the world. I may not ever complete the last one, But I give myself to it. I circle around God, that primordial tower. I have been circling for thousands of years, And I still don't know: am I a falcon, A storm, or a great song? [I, 2]

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  Song, Circles, Years

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

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• Be ahead of all parting, as though it already were behind you.

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  Grief, Suffering, Sorrow

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2015). “Ahead of All Parting: The Selected Poetry and Prose of Rainer Maria Rilke”, p.632, Modern Library

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• All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.

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  Emotional, Sides, Lift You Up

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• More unsayable than all other things are works of art, those mysterious existences, whose life endures beside our own small, transitory life.

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  Art, Mysterious, Existence

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

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• I know of no other advice than this: Go within and scale the depths of your being from which your very life springs forth.

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  Spring, Advice, Depth

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2010). “Letters to a Young Poet”, p.9, New World Library

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