Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes - Page 6

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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.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Change, Past, Looks

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• The artist's experience lies so unbelievably close to the sexual, to its pain and its pleasure, that the two phenomena are really just different forms of one and the same longing and bliss.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Sex, Pain, Lying

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

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

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  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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• A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Relationship, Sad Love, Family Love

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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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• Look, we don't love like flowers with only one season behind us; when we love, a sap older than memory rises in our arms.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Memories, Flower, Looks

  Rainer Maria Rilke, A. Poulin, Mark Doty (2005). “Duino Elegies and The Sonnets to Orpheus”, p.23, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• May you gain more and more confidence in what is difficult and in your solitude among other people.

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  Confidence, People, Solitude

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

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• Often a star was waiting for you to notice it. A wave rolled toward you out of the distant path, or as you walked under an open window, a violin yielded itself to your hearing. All this was mission.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Stars, Waiting, Violin

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2014). “The Duino Elegies & The Sonnets to Orpheus: A Dual Language Edition”, p.3, Vintage

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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.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Fall, Hands, Forgotten

  "Letters to a Young Poet".

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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.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Nature, Spring, Heart

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1969). “Letters”

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• We ignore the gods and fill our minds with trash.

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  Mind, Trash

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• Solitude is nothing that one can choose or retrain from. We are solitary. We can delude ourselves about this and act as if it were not true. That is all.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Solitude, Solitary, Ifs

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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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• The most visible joy can only reveal itself to us when we've transformed it, within.

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  Joy, Visible, Transformed

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

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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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• Don't observe yourself too closely. Don't be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you; simply let it happen.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Observation, Conclusion, Draws

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

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• I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Life, Circles, Community

  Rainer Maria Rilke, Anita Barrows, Joanna Macy (1996). “Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God”, Riverhead Trade (Paperbacks)

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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.

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  Heart, Simple, Feelings

  Rainer Maria Rilke “Letters: 1910-1926”

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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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• 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.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Sadness, Fate, Patient

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

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