Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes - Page 5

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• the knowledge of impermanence that haunts our days is their very fragrance.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Impermanence, Fragrance

  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 learn it every day of my life, learn it with pain I am grateful for: patience is everything!

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Patience, Pain, Grateful

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

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• Keep growing quietly and seriously throughout your whole development; you cannot disturb it more rudely than by looking outward and expecting from outside replies to questions that only your inmost feeling in your most hushed hour can perhaps answer.

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  Feelings, Growth, Development

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• This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess of that precious nourishing love from which flowers and children have their strength and which could help all human beings if they would take it without doubting.

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  Love, Children, Flower

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1969). “Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910”, p.297, W. W. Norton & Company

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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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• If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Riches, Poverty, Blame

  "Letters to a Young Poet". Book by Rainer Maria Rilke. Letter One (February 17, 1903), the 1993 translation by M. D. Herter Norton, 1929.

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• We make our way through Everything like thread passing through fabric, giving shape to images that we ourselves do not know.

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  Giving, Fabric, Shapes

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2007). “Letters on Life: New Prose Translations”, p.48, Modern Library

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• Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Art, Gone, Way

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2002). “Letters on Cézanne”, p.4, Macmillan

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• Religion is something infinitely simple, ingenuous. It is not knowledge, not content of feeling... it is not duty and not renunciation, it is not restriction: but in the infinite extent of the universe it is a direction of the heart.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Heart, Simple, Feelings

  Rainer Maria Rilke “Letters: 1910-1926”

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• It is clear that we must embrace struggle. Every living thing conforms to it. Everything in nature grows and struggles in its own way, establishing its own identity, insisting on it at all cost, against all resistance.

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  Struggle, Identity, Cost

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2010). “Letters to a Young Poet”, p.62, New World Library

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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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• Love and death are the great gifts that are given to us; mostly they are passed on unopened.

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  Love And Death, Given, Great Gifts

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

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  Two, Notes, Discord

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• The future must enter you long before it happens.

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  Long, Happens

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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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• Don't be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you; simply let it happen. Otherwise it will be too easy for you to look with blame... at your past, which naturally has a share with everything that now meets you.

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  Change, Past, Looks

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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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• If the Angel deigns to appear, it will be because you have convinced him, not by tears but by your humble resolve to be always beginning — to be a Beginner!

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  Inspirational, Humble, Angel

  "Letters to Merline, 1919-1922".

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• Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.

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  Love, Life, Sexy

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• May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children.

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  Nature, Children, Integrity

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

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

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Night, Speak, Walks

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

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• All companionship can consist in only the strengthening of neighboring solitudes, giving oneself is by nature harmful to companionship: for when a person abandons himself, he is no longer anything, and when two people both give themselves up in order to become closer to each other, there is no longer any ground beneath them and their being together is a continual falling – I have learned over and over again, there is scarcely anything more difficult than to love one another.

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  Fall, Order, Two

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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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