Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes - Page 19

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• Take your well-disciplined strengths, stretch them between the two great opposing poles, because inside human beings is where God learns.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Two, Wells, Humans

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• a kind of memory that tells us that what we're now striving for was once nearer and truer and attached to us with infinite tenderness. Here all is distance, there it was breath. After the first home the second one seems draughty and strangely sexed.

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  Memories, Distance, Home

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• Fame, that public destruction of one in process of becoming, into whose building-ground the mob breaks, displacing his stones.

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  Stones, Becoming, Fame

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

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• Works of art are of an infinite loneliness and with nothing so little to be reached as with criticism.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Art, Loneliness, Criticism

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• Stand up during supper and walk outdoors, and keep on walking.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Walks, Supper, Walking

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1981). “Selected Poems”

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• Ah, not to be cut off, not through the slightest partition shut out from the law of the stars. The inner -- what is it? if not the intensified sky, hurled through with birds and deep with the winds of homecoming.

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  Stars, Cutting, Wind

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• It was not in me It came and went I wanted to hold it It was held by wine (I no longer know what it was)

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  Wine, Wanted, Knows

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1993). “Translations from the Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke”, p.117, W. W. Norton & Company

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• No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.

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  Art, Danger, Made

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• FALLING STARS: Do you remember still the falling stars that like swift horses through the heavens raced and suddenly leaped across the hurdles of our wishes -- do you recall? And we did make so many! For there were countless numbers of stars: each time we looked above we were astounded by the swiftness of their daring play, while in our hearts we felt safe and secure watching these brilliant bodies disintegrate, knowing somehow we had survived their fall.

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  Horse, Stars, Fall

  Rainer Maria Rilke, Albert Ernest Flemming (1986). “Rainer Maria Rilke: Selected Poems”, p.210, Psychology Press

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• I am a house gutted by fire where only the guilty sometimes sleep before the punishment that devours them hounds them out in the open.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Sleep, Fire, Punishment

  Rainer Maria Rilke, Anita Barrows, Joanna Macy (1996). “Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God”, Riverhead Trade (Paperbacks)

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• Do you remember how life yearned out of childhood toward the "great thing?" I see that it is now yearning forth beyond the great thing toward the greater one.

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  Childhood, Remember, Longing

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• There are quite a number of people in the reading-room; but one is not aware of them. They are inside the books. They move, sometimes, within the pages like sleepers turning over between two dreams. Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading.

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  Dream, Reading, Moving

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

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• There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.

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  May, Be Good, Pleasant

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• Not since Moses has anyone seen a mountain so greatly.

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  Mountain, Moses

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2002). “Letters on Cézanne”, p.10, Macmillan

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• Weren't you always distracted by expectation, as if every event announced a beloved? (Where can you find a place to keep her, with all the huge strange thoughts inside you going and coming and often staying all night.).

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  Night, Expectations, Events

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2014). “The Duino Elegies & The Sonnets to Orpheus: A Dual Language Edition”, p.5, Vintage

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• Spring has again returned.
  The Earth is like a child that knows many poems.
  Many, O so many. For the hardship
  of such long learning she receives the prize.
  
  Strict was her teacher.
  The white in the old man's beard pleases us.
  Now, what to call green, to call blue,
  we dare to ask: She knows, She knows!

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  Teacher, Children, Spring

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• My art is representational by choice....if the art of painting is to survive, it must describe and express people, their lives and times. It must communicate.

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  Art, People, Choices

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• Perhaps the great renewal of the world will consist of this, that man and woman, freed of all confused feelings and desires, shall no longer seek each other as opposites, but simply as members of a family and neighbors, and will unite as human beings, in order to simply, earnestly, patiently, and jointly bear the heavy responsibility of sexuality that has been entrusted to them.

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  Confused, Responsibility, Men

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2010). “Letters to a Young Poet”, p.39, New World Library

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• Love the questions themselves...Live the questions now and have confidence that someday far into the future, [I will live my] way into the answer.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Answers, Way, Someday

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• There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.

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  Birthday, Men, Littles

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• Art too is just a way of living, and however one lives, one can, without knowing, prepare for it; in everything real one is closer to it, more its neighbor, than in the unreal half-artistic professions, which, while they pretend to be close to art, in practice deny and attack the existence of all art - as, for example, all of journalism does and almost all criticism and three quarters of what is called (and wants to be called) literature.

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  Art, Real, Practice

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

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• And yet, for some time now I have believed that it is our own force, all our own force that is still too great for us. It is true we do not know it; but is it not just that which is most our own of which we know the least?

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Fear, Force, Stills

  "Prose and Poetry".

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• We must assume our existence as broadly as we in any way can; everything, even the unheard - of, must be possible in it. This is at bottom the only courage that is demanded of us: to have courage for the most strange, the most inexplicable.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Life, Way, Strange

  John J. L. Mood, Rainer Maria Rilke (1994). “Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations”, p.118, W. W. Norton & Company

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• And when suddenly the god stopped her and, with anguish in his cry, uttered the words: ‘He has turned round’ – she comprehended nothing and said softly: ‘Who?

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  Cry, Said, Anguish

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• Describe your sorrows and desires, passing thoughts and the belief in some sort of beauty-describe all these with loving, quiet, humble sincerity, and use, to express yourself, the things in your environment, the images from your dreams, and the objects of your memory.

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  Dream, Memories, Humble

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