Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes - Page 4

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• Everything terrible is something that needs our love.

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  Needs, Our Love, Terrible

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• What batters you becomes your strength.

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  Rushing Water

  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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• 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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• Where I create, there I am true.

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• Joy is a marvelous increasing of what exists, a pure addition out of nothingness.

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  Joy, Marvelous, Pure

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2014). “The Duino Elegies & The Sonnets to Orpheus: A Dual Language Edition”, p.240, Vintage

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• Our task is to take this earth so deeply and wholly into ourselves that it will resurrect within our being.

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  Tasks, Earth

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• As people used to be wrong about the motion of the sun, so they are still wrong about the motion of the future. The future stands still, it is we who move in infinite space.

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  Moving, Future, Space

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• A birdsong can even, for a moment, make the whole world into a sky within us, because we feel that the bird does not distinguish between its heart and the world's.

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  Heart, Sky, Bird

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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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• 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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• To be here is immense.

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  Generosity, Immense

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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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• Destiny itself is like a wonderful wide tapestry in which every thread is guided by an unspeakable tender hand, placed beside another thread and held and carried by a hundred others.

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  Destiny, Hands, Wonderful

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2010). “Letters to a Young Poet”, p.24, New World Library

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• Our heart always transcends us.

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  Heart

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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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• 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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• No one can advise and help you, no one. There is only one way: go within.

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  Way, Helping, Existentialism

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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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• 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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• Life is heavier than the weight of all things.

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  Weight, Life Is, All Things

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2014). “The Book of Images”, p.63, North Point Press

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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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• Nearly everything that matters is a challenge, and everything matters.

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  Challenges, Matter

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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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  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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• And do not change. Do not divert your love from visible things. But go on loving what is good, simple and ordinary; animals and things and flowers, and keep the balance true.

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  Spiritual, Flower, Animal

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