Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes - Page 16

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• It’s possible, I’m moving through the hard veins of heavy mountains, like an arc, alone; I’m so deep inside, I see no end in sight, and no distance: everything is getting near and everything near is turning to stone.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Distance, Moving, Sight

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• In the depths all becomes law.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Law, Depth

  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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• Your doubt can become a good quality if you train it. It must become knowing, it must become criticism.

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  Knowing, Doubt, Criticism

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2012). “Letters to a Young Poet”, p.42, Courier Corporation

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• Those tasks that have been entrusted to us are difficult; almost everything serious is difficult; and everything is serious.

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  Tasks, Serious, Difficult

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

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• Nothing strange should befall us, but only that which has long belonged to us. We will gradually learn to realize that that which we call destiny goes forth from within people, not from without into them.

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  Destiny, Long, People

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• Society has been able to create refuges of every sort, for since it preferred to take love-life as an amusement, it also had to give it an easy form, cheap, safe, and sure, as public amusements are.

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  Love Life, Giving, Amusement

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• Dig deep into your heart, where the answer spreads its roots in your being, and ask yourself solemnly, Must I write?

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Writing, Heart, Roots

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• The creator must be a world for himself and must find everything in himself and in Nature, to whom his whole life is devoted.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  World, Life Is, Obsession

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

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• You, Beloved, who are all the gardens I have ever gazed at, longing. An open window in a country house - , and you almost stepped out, pensive, to meet me. Streets that I chanced upon, - you had just walked down them and vanished. And sometimes, in a shop, the mirrors were still dizzy with your presence and, startled, gave back my too-sudden image. Who knows? Perhaps the same bird echoed through both of us yesterday, separate, in the evening.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Country, Garden, Mirrors

  Rainer Maria Rilke, “You Who Never Arrived”

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• Learn to love the questions themselves.

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• Never has grief been possessed, never has love been learned, and what removes us in death is not revealed.

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  Grief, Love Is, Remove

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2014). “The Duino Elegies & The Sonnets to Orpheus: A Dual Language Edition”, p.119, Vintage

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• And these things that keep alive on departure know that you praise them; transient, they look to us, the most transient, to be their rescue. They want us to change them completely, in our invisible hearts, into -- O endlessly -- us! Whoever, finally, we may be.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Heart, Looks, Alive

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• Yield not thy neck
  To fortune's yoke, but let thy dauntless mind
  Still ride in triumph over all mischance.
  In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands
  that work on us.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Healing, Yield, Hands

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• One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Fear, Action

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• ... be indulgent toward those who ... are afraid of the aloneness that you trust.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Solitude

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

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• Children are still the way you were as a child, sad and happy in just the same way-and if you think of your childhood, you once again live among them, among the solitary children.

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  Children, Thinking, Sad And Happy

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

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• Who is there today who still cares about a well-finished death? No one. Even the rich, who could after all afford this luxury, are beginning to grow lazy and indifferent; the desire to have a death of one's own is becoming more and more rare. In a short time it will be as rare as a life of one's own.

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  Luxury, Lazy, Desire

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• Across the moment, aeons speak with aeons. More than we experienced has gone by.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Gone, Speak, Moments

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2014). “The Duino Elegies & The Sonnets to Orpheus: A Dual Language Edition”, p.197, Vintage

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• One of the most difficult tests for the creator: he must always remain unconscious, unaware of his best virtues, if he doesn't want to rob them of their candor and innocence.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Want, Tests, Innocence

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

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• If there is anything unhealthy in your reactions, just bear in mind that sickness is the means by which an organism frees itself from what is alien; so one must simply help it to be sick, to have its whole sickness and to break out with it, since that is the way it gets better.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Mean, Sick, Mind

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• Young people, who are beginners in everything, cannot yet know love: they have to learn it.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  People, Beginners, Young

  Rainer Maria Rilke, John J. L. Mood (1994). “Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations”, p.37, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Now for some heartwork.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Heart

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1969). “Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910”, p.3, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Poetic power is great, strong as a primitive instinct; it has its own unyielding rhythms in itself and breaks out as out of mountains.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Strong, Mountain, Break Out

  Rainer Maria Rilke, John J. L. Mood (1994). “Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations”, p.43, W. W. Norton & Company

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• For bel.i.eve me, the more one is, the richer is all one experiences. And whoever wants to have deep love in his life must collect and save for it and gather honey.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Inspirational, Deep Love, Greatest Love

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• Swells, Marina? we ocean, depths, Marina? we sky!

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Ocean, Sky, Depth

  Rainer Maria Rilke, Walter W. Arndt (1989). “The best of Rilke: 72 form-true verse translations with facing originals, commentary, and compact biography ; translated by Walter Arndt ; foreword by Cyrus Hamlin”, Dartmouth College

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