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• Everything that makes more of you than you have ever been, even in your best hours, is right. Every intensification is good.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Hours

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

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• You must think that something is happening upon you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand; it will not let you fall.

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  Fall, Hands, Forgotten

  "Letters to a Young Poet".

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• I think of you often, dear, and with such concentrated wishes that it really must help you in some way.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Thinking, Wish, Way

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2012). “Letters to a Young Poet”, p.41, Courier Corporation

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• Works of art always spring from those who have faced the danger, gone to the very end of an experience, to the point beyond which no human being can go. The further one dares to go, the more decent, the more personal, the more unique a life becomes.

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  Art, Spring, Unique

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• So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp.

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  Rainer Maria Rilke, “A Walk”

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• Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.

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  Love, Measles, Love You

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• You have had many sadnesses, large ones, which passed. ... But please, ask yourself whether these large sadnesses haven't rather gone right through you [that is, passed through you]. Perhaps many things inside you have been transformed; perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while you were sad.

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  Life, Sadness, Important

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• Always trust yourself and your own feelings, as opposed to arguments and discussions. If it turns out that you are wrong, then the natural growth of your inner life will eventually guide you to other insights.

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  Trust, Feelings, Growth

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• She followed slowly, taking a long time, As though there were some obstacles in the way; And yet: as though, once it was overcome, She would be beyond all walking, and would fly.

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  Long, Would Be, Way

  Rainer Maria Rilke, Walter W. Arndt (1989). “The Best of Rilke: 72 Form-true Verse Translations with Facing Originals, Commentary, and Compact Biography ; Translated by Walter Arndt ; Foreword by Cyrus Hamlin”, p.166, UPNE

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• Our task is to listen to the news that is always arriving out of silence.

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  Silence, Intuition, Arriving

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• You are also the physician who must watch over yourself. But in the course of every illness there are many days in which the physician can do nothing but wait.

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  Waiting, Over You, Physicians

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2010). “Letters to a Young Poet”, p.81, New World Library

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• Go on loving what is good, simple, and ordinary.

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  Love, Simple, Ordinary

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• One moment your life is a stone in you, and the next moment a star!

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  Stars, Stones, Next

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1981). “Selected Poems”

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• Yet everything that touches us, me and you, takes us together like a violin's bow, which draws one voice out of two separate strings.

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  Two, Voice, Together

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2015). “Ahead of All Parting: The Selected Poetry and Prose of Rainer Maria Rilke”, p.41, Modern Library

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• No, no, one can imagine nothing in the world, not the least thing. Everything is composed of so many isolated details that are not to be foreseen. In one's imagining one passes over them and hasty as one is doesn't notice that they are missing. But realities are slow and indescribably detailed.

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  Reality, Missing, Details

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• The moments when something new has entered us, something unknown; our feelings grow mute in shy embarrassment, everything in us withdraws, a silence arises, and the new experience, which no one knows, stands in the midst of it all and says nothing.

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  New Experiences, Silence, Feelings

  Rainer Maria Rilke, Maurice Betz, Will Stone (2012). “Rilke in Paris”, p.51, Hesperus Press

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• The quieter we are, the more patient and open we are in our sadnesses, the more deeply and serenely the new presence can enter us, and the more we can make it our own, the more it becomes our fate.

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  Sadness, Fate, Patient

  Letters to a Young Poet: Letter Eight (12 August 1904), 1934.

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• we are continually overflowing toward those who preceded us, toward our origin, and toward those who seemingly come after us. ... It is our task to imprint this temporary, perishable earth into ourselves so deeply, so painfully and passionately, that its essence can rise again “invisibly,” inside us. We are the bees of the invisible. We wildly collect the honey of the visible, to store it in the great golden hive of the invisible.

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  Essence, Tasks, Earth

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• In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us.

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  Life, Adversity, Hands

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

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• Think... of the world you carry within you.

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  Healing, Thinking, World

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• Everything is gestation and bringing forth. To let each impression and each germ of feeling come to completion wholly in itself, in the dark, in the inexpressible, the unconscious, beyond the reach of one's own intelligence, and await with deep humility and patience the birth-hour of a new clarity: that alone is living the artist's life.

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  Humility, Dark, Artist

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• Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.

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  Nature, Spring, Heart

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1969). “Letters”

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• There is time only to work slowly There is no time not to love

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• Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading!

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  Book, Reading, People

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

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• Earth, my dearest, oh believe me, you no longer need your springtimes to win me over...Unspeakably, I have belonged to you, from the flush.

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  Believe, Winning, Needs

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