Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes - Page 4

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• Where I create, there I am true.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

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• I am touched by your beautiful anxiety about life.

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  Beautiful, Worry, Anxiety

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

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• I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.

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  Friendship, Relationship, Marriage

  Letter to Paula Modersohn-Becker, 12 Feb. 1902, in Gesammelte Briefe (Collected Letters, 1904) vol. 1, p. 204

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• You must give birth to your images. They are the future waiting to be born. Fear not the strangeness you feel. The future must enter you long before it happens. Just wait for the birth, for the the hour of the new clarity.

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  Long, Giving, Waiting

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• As bees gather honey, so we collect what is sweetest out of all things and build.

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  Honey, Bees, Construction

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

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• Right in the difficult we must have our joys, our happiness, our dreams: there against the depth of this background, they stand out, there for the first time we see how beautiful they are.

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  Beautiful, Uplifting, Dream

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1969). “Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910”, p.181, W. W. Norton & Company

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• May you find in yourself enough patience to endure and enough simplicity to have faith.

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  Faith, Simplicity, May

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

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• Things aren't all so tangible and sayable as people would usually have us believe; most experiences are unsayable, they happen in a space that no word has ever entered, and 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, Believe, Space

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

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• Be out of sync with your times for just one day, and you will see how much eternity you contain within you.

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  One Day, Eternity, Sync

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2007). “Letters on Life: New Prose Translations”, p.43, Modern Library

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• Our heart always transcends us.

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  Heart

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  To be loved means to be consumed. To love is to give light with inexhaustible oil. To be loved is to pass away, to love is to endure.

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  Love, Mean, Light

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

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• We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.

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  Inspirational, Courage, Empowerment

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

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• There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.

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  Inspirational, Life, Success

  Rainer Maria Rilke, Stephen Mitchell (1983). “The notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge”, Random House (NY)

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• Embrace your solitude and love it. Endure the pain it causes, and try to sing out with it. For those near to you are distant.

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  Pain, Solitude, Trying

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

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• I am circling around God, around the ancient tower, and I have been circling for a thousand years, and I still don't know if I am a falcon, or a storm, or a great song.

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  Song, Years, Storm

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1981). “Selected Poems”

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• What is happening on your innermost self is worthy of your entire love.

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  Self, Worthy, Happenings

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

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• Now I come to you full of future. And from habit we begin to live our past.

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  Future, Past, Habit

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• I believe that nothing that is real can pass away.

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  Real, Believe, Passing Away

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1969). “Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910”, p.145, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The future must enter you long before it happens.

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  Long, Happens

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• God... sat down for a moment when the dog was finished in order to watch it... and to know that it was good, that nothing was lacking, that it could not have been made better.

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  Dog, Order, Watches

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1964). “New poems”, Vintage

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• I am the rest between two notes which are somehow always in discord.

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  Two, Notes, Discord

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• God speaks to each of us as he makes us,
  then walks with us silently out of the night.

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  Night, Speak, Walks

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

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• Life + a cat ... adds up to an incalculable sum.

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  Cat, Add

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• And isn't the whole world yours? For how often you set it on fire with your love and saw it blaze and burn up and secretly replaced it with another world while everyone slept. You felt in such complete harmony with God, when every morning you asked him for a new earth, so that all the ones he had made could have their turn. You thought it would be shabby to save them and repair them; you used them up and held out your hands, again and again, for more world. For your love was equal to everything.

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  Life, Morning, Fire

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• I believe in all that has never yet been spoken.

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  Believe, I Believe, I Believe In

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

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