Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes - Page 20

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• She who reconciles the ill-matched threads Of her life, and weaves them gratefully Into a single cloth – It’s she who drives the loudmouths from the hall And clears it for a different celebration.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Different, Celebration, Thread

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

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• Be forever dead in Eurydice-more gladly arise into the seamless life proclaimed in your song. Here, in the realm of decline, among momentary days, be the crystal cup that shattered even as it rang.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Song, Joy, Forever

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

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• They all have tired mouths and bright seamless souls. And a longing (as for sin) sometimes haunts their dreams. They are almost all alike; in God's gardens they keep still, like many, many intervals in his might and melody. Only when they spread their wings are they wakers of a wind: as if God with his broad sculptor- hands leafed through the pages in the dark book of the beginning.

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  Dream, Book, Tired

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2014). “The Book of Images”, p.31, North Point Press

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• Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his reflective processes, and incomprehensibly to himself, all his progress should enter so swiftly into the work that he is unable to recognize them in the moment of transition. Alas, the artist who waits in ambush there, watching, detaining them, will find them transformed like the beautiful gold in the fairy tale which cannot remain gold because some small detail was not taken care of.

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  Beautiful, Taken, Creativity

  Letter to his wife (October 21, 1907). "Letters on Cézanne". Book by Rainer Maria Rilke, 1952.

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• Dying is strange and hard if it is not our death, but a death that takes us by storm, when we've ripened none within us.

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  Death, Dying, Storm

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2005). “In Praise of Mortality: Selections from Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus”, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)

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• You are nearing the land that is life; you will recognize it by its seriousness.

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  Land, Seriousness

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• Ask yourself in the most silent hour of your night: must I write [create]? Dig into yourself for a deep answer.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Writing, Night, Answers

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• It wasn't his, it wasn't my fault, we both had nothing except patience, but Death has none. I saw him come (how meanly!) and I watched him as he took and took: none of it I could claim as mine.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Saws, Faults, Claims

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• Only those sadnesses are dangerous and bad which one carries about among people in order to drown them out.

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  Sadness, Order, People

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• True singing is a different breath, about nothing.

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  Singing, Different, Breaths

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2014). “The Duino Elegies & The Sonnets to Orpheus: A Dual Language Edition”, p.87, Vintage

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• How can I keep my soul in me, so that it doesn't touch your soul? How can I raise it high enough, past you, to other things?

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Past, Soul, Enough

  Rainer Maria Rilke, “Love Song”

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• Life and death: they are one, at core entwined. Who understands himself from his own strain presses himself into a drop of wine and throws himself into the purest flame.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Spiritual, Wine, Flames

  Rainer Maria Rilke, John J. L. Mood (1994). “Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations”, p.83, W. W. Norton & Company

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