Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes - Page 15

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• That is longing: To dwell in the flux of things,
  To have no home in the present.
  And these are wishes: gentle dialogues
  Of the poor hours with eternity.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Home, Wish, Longing

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2014). “Poems”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• But you, divine poet, you sang on till the end as the swarm of rejected maenads attacked you, shrieking, you overpowered their noise with harmony, and from pure destruction arose your transfigured song.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Song, Maenads, Noise

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2014). “The Duino Elegies & The Sonnets to Orpheus: A Dual Language Edition”, p.133, Vintage

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• It is not inertia alone that is responsible for human relationships repeating themselves from case to case, indescribably monotonous and unrenewed: it is shyness before any sort of new, unforeseeable experience with which one does not think oneself able to cope. But only someone who is ready for everything, who excludes nothing, not even the most enigmatical will live the relation to another as something alive.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Thinking, Doe, Alive

  Rainer Maria Rilke, “Fear Of The Inexplicable”

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• Rose, oh pure contradiction, joy of being No-one's sleep under so many lids.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Sleep, Rose, Joy

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2015). “Ahead of All Parting: The Selected Poetry and Prose of Rainer Maria Rilke”, p.260, Modern Library

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• Comfort me from wherever you are–alone, we are quickly worn out; if I place my head on the road, let it seem softened by you. Could it be that even from afar we offer each other a gentle breath?

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Comfort, Afar, Worn

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1986). “The Complete French Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke”

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• most people come to know only one corner of their room, one spot near the window, one narrow strip on which they keep walking back and forth.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  People, Rooms, Window

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• Look, lovers: almost separately they come towards us through the flowery grass and slowly; parting's so far from thought of, they indulge the extravagance of walking unembraced.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Looks, Extravagance, Lovers

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1976). “Poems, 1906 to 1926”

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• We are not permitted to linger, even with what is most intimate.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Intimate

  "The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke".

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• Interior of the hand. Sole that has come to walk only on feelings. That faces upward and in its mirror receives heavenly roads, which travel along themselves. That has learned to walk upon water when it scoops, that walks upon wells, transfiguring every path. That steps into other hands, changes those that are like it into a landscape: wanders and arrives within them, fills them with arrival.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Hands, Mirrors, Water

  Rainer Maria Rilke, “Palm”

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• It is good to say it aloud: 'Nothing has happened.' Once again: 'Nothing has happened.' Does that help?"

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Doe, Helping, Happened

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1930). “The Journal of My Other Self”

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• If only it were possible for us to see farther than our knowledge reaches, and even a little beyond the outworks of our presentiment, perhaps we would bear our sadnesses with greater trust than we have in our joys.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Sadness, Joy, Littles

  Rainer Maria Rilke, Maurice Betz, Will Stone (2012). “Rilke in Paris”, p.51, Hesperus Press

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• Und dasTotsein ist mu« hsam und voller Nachholn, dass man allm a« hlich ein wenig Ewigkeit spu« rt. And being dead is hard work and full of retrieval before one can gradually feel a trace of eternity.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Hard Work, Men, Eternity

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• I am so afraid of people's words.They describe so distinctly everything: And this they call dog and that they call house, here the start and there the end. I worry about their mockery with words, they know everything, what will be, what was; no mountain is still miraculous; and their house and yard lead right up to God. I want to warn and object: Let the things be! I enjoy listening to the sound they are making. But you always touch: and they hush and stand still. That's how you kill.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Dog, People, Worry

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2005). “Pictures of God: Rilke's Religious Poetry Including "The Life of the Virgin Mary"”, Annmarie s Kidder

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• To work is to live without dying.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Work, Dying

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1969). “Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910”, p.88, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Everything in the world of things and animals is still filled with happening, which you can take part in.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Animal, World, Filled

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

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• So you mustn't be frightened, dear Mr. Kappus, if a sadness rises in front of you, larger than any you have ever seen; if an anxiety - like light and cloud-shadows, moves over your hands and everything you do. You must realize that something is happening to you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in the palm of its hand and will not let you fall.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Faith, Fear, Moving

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• Painting is something that takes place among the colors.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Color, Agility, Painting

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2002). “Letters on Cézanne”, p.66, Macmillan

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• The artist's task consists of making one thing of many, and a
  world from the smallest part of a thing.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Artist, Tasks, World

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2012). “Auguste Rodin”, p.50, Parkstone International

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• Draw near to Nature. Then try like some first human being to say what you see and experience and love and lose.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Trying, And Love, Firsts

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• Earth, is not this what you will: in us to rise up invisible? Is it, O Earth, not your dream once to be wholly invisible? Earth! Invisible! What, if not change, is your desperate mission?

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Dream, What If, Earth

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• Why don't you conceive of God as an ally who is coming, who has been approaching since time began, the one who will someday arrive, the fruit of a tree whose leaves we are? Why not project his birth into the future, and live your life as an excruciating and lyrical moment in the history of a prodigious pregnancy?

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Pregnancy, Tree, Live Your Life

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• O how all things are far removed and long have passed away. I do believe the star, whose light my face reflects, is dead and has been so for many thousand years. I had a vision of a passing boat and heard some voices saying disquieting things. I heard a clock strike in some distant house... but in which house?... I long to quiet my anxious heart and stand beneath the sky's immensity. I long to pray... And one of all the stars must still exist. I do believe that I would know which one alone endured, and which like a white city stands at the ray's end shining in the heavens.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Stars, Believe, Heart

  Rainer Maria Rilke, “Lament (O How All Things Are Far Removed)”

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• May I strike my heart's keys clearly, and may none fail because of slack, uncertain, or fraying strings. May the tears that stream down my face make me more radiant: may my hidden weeping bloom.... How we waste our afflictions!... [T]hey'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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  Heart, Dark, Years

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• Everything is gestation and then birthing.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Gestation, Birthing

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

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• Winning does not tempt that man. This is how he grows: by being defeated, decisively, by constantly greater beings.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Success, Winning, Men

  "Selected Poems".

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