Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes - Page 8

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• All things want to float.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Want, All Things, Floats

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2011). “Sonnets to Orpheus”, p.83, Wesleyan University Press

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• I am too alone in the world and not alone enough to make every moment holy.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  World, Moments, Enough

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• We discover that we do not know our role; we look for a mirror; we want to remove our make-up and take off what is false and real. But somewhere a piece of disguise that we forgot still sticks to us. A trace of exaggeration remains in our eyebrows; we do not notice that the corners of our mouth are bent. And so we walk around, a mockery and a mere half: neither having achieved being nor actors.

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  Real, Mirrors, Eyebrows

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• It is part of the nature of every definitive love that sooner or later it can reach the beloved only in infinity.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Infinity, Beloved, Sooner Or Later

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2007). “Letters on Life: New Prose Translations”, p.152, Modern Library

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• Somewhere there is an ancient enmity between our daily life and the great work. Help me in saying it, to understand it.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Enmity, Helping, Daily Life

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• Deeply I go down into myself. My god is Dark and like a webbing made of a hundred roots that drink in silence.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  God, Dark, Roots

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1981). “Selected Poems”

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• Extinguish my eyes, I'll go on seeing you. Seal my ears, I'll go on hearing you. And without feet I can make my way to you, without a mouth I can swear your name. Break off my arms, I'll take hold of you with my heart as with a hand. Stop my heart, and my brain will start to beat. And if you consume my brain with fire, I'll feel you burn in every drop of my blood.

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  Heart, Eye, Fire

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• ...a carefree letting go of oneself, not a caution, but a wise blindness.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Letting Go, Wise, Carefree

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• Every angel is terrifying.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Angel, Elegy

  Duino Elegies no. 1 (written 1912) (translation by Stephen Mitchell)

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• Shattered people are best represented by bits and pieces.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  People, Pieces, Shattered

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• You, darkness, of whom I am born- I love you more than the flame that limits the world to the circle it illumines and excludes the rest.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  I Love You More, Flames, Circles

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

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• Let your beauty manifest itself without talking and calculation.​ You are silent. It says for you: I am. And comes in meaning thousandfold​, comes at long last over everyone.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Talking, Long, Lasts

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2014). “The Book of Images”, p.107, North Point Press

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• If, when you wake up in the morning, you can think of nothing but writing . . . then you are a writer.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Morning, Writing, Thinking

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• It is true that these mysteries are dreadful, and people have always drawn away from them. But where can we find anything sweet and glorious that would never wear this mask, the mask of the dreadful? Whoever does not, sometimes or other, give his full consent, his full and joyous consent to the dreadfulness of life, can never take possession of the unutterable abundance and power of our existence; can only walk on its edge, and one day, when the judgment is given, will have been neither alive nor dead.

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  Sweet, People, Giving

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2014). “The Duino Elegies & The Sonnets to Orpheus: A Dual Language Edition”, p.223, Vintage

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• All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Blood, Mind, Of My Mind

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1945). “Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910”

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• You who let yourselves feel: enter the breathing
  That is more than your own.
  Let it brush your cheeks
  As it divides and rejoins behind you.
  
  The trees you planted in childhood have grown
  Too heavy. You cannot bring them along.
  Give yourselves to the air, to what you cannot hold.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Air, Breathing, Giving

  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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• Losing too is still ours; and even forgetting still has a shape in the kingdom of transformation. When something's let go of, it circles; and though we are rarely the center of the circle, it draws around us its unbroken, marvelous curve.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Letting Go, Curves, Circles

  Rainer Maria Rilke, “For Hans Carossa”

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• And still it is not enough to have memories. One must be able to forget them when they are many, and one must have the great patience to wait until they come again. For it is not yet the memories themselves. Not until they have turned to blood within us, to glance, to gesture, nameless and no longer to be distinguished from ourselves - not until then can it happen that in a most rare hour the first word of a verse arises in their midst and goes forth from them.

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  Memories, Blood, Waiting

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• I live not in dreams but in contemplation of a reality that is perhaps the future.

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  Dream, Reality, Contemplation

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1969). “Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910”, p.101, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Patience, Ego, Solitude

  "Sunbeams: A Book of Quotations". Book edited by Sy Safransky, p. 42, 1990.

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• We are the bees of the invisible. We madly gather the honey of the visible to store it in the great golden hive of the invisible.

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  Honey, Golden, Bees

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• All professions are... filled with demands.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Demand, Filled, Profession

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• Look, I am living. On what? Neither childhood nor future lessens . . . . Superabundant existence wells in my heart.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Heart, Childhood, Looks

  Rainer Maria Rilke, Lou Andreas-Salomé (2008). “Rilke and Andreas-Salomé: A Love Story in Letters”, p.303, W. W. Norton & Company

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• What we call fate does not come into us from the outside, but emerges from us.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Fate, Doe

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2014). “The Duino Elegies & The Sonnets to Orpheus: A Dual Language Edition”, p.266, Vintage

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• I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each shall stand guard over the solitude of the other. For, if it lies in the nature of indifference and of the crowd to recognize no solitude, then love and friendship are there for the purpose of continually providing the opportunity for solitude. And only those are the true sharings which rhythmically interrupt periods of deep isolation.

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  Lying, Opportunity, Two

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1960). “Selected letters”

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