Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes - Page 9

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• Live the questions now.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Life

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2012). “Letters to a Young Poet”, p.21, Courier Corporation

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• Perhaps then, some day far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.

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  Depression, Patience, Mindfulness

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

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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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• Perhaps the same bird echoed through both of us yesterday, seperate, in the evening.

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  Yesterday, Bird, Evening

  Rainer Maria Rilke, “You Who Never Arrived”

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• I don't want to stay folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Inspirational, Lying, Want

  "Selected Poems".

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• And now let us believe in a long year that is given to us, new, untouched, full of things that have never been, full of work that has never been done, full of tasks, claims, and demands; and let us see that we learn to take it without letting fall too much of what it has to bestow upon those who demand of it necessary, serious, and great things.

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  Believe, Fall, Years

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1969). “Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910”, p.253, W. W. Norton & Company

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• only someone who is ready for everything, who doesn't exclude any experience, even the most incomprehensible, will live the relationship with another person as something alive and will himself sound the depths of his own being.

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  Relationship, Alive, Sound

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• You see, I want a lot. Perhaps I want everything the darkness that comes with every infinite fall and the shivering blaze of every step up. So many live on and want nothing And are raised to the rank of prince By the slippery ease of their light judgments But what you love to see are faces that do work and feel thirst. You love most of all those who need you as they need a crowbar or a hoe. You have not grown old, and it is not too late To dive into your increasing depths where life calmly gives out its own secret.

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  Fall, Light, Hoe

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1981). “Selected Poems”

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• He who does not at some time, with definite determination consent to the terribleness of life, or even exalt in it, never takes possession of the inexpressible fullness of the power of our existence.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Life, Determination, Doe

  "Selected Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke". Book by Rainer Maria Rilke, 1960.

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• Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and great each other.

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  Falling In Love, Two, Solitude

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• Beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we are still just able to endure, and we are so awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us.

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  Able, Endure, Terror

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

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• It is clear that we must trust what is difficult; everything alive trusts in it, everything in Nature grows and defends itself any way it can and is spontaneously itself, tries to be itself at all costs and against all opposition. We know little, but that we must trust in what is difficult is a certainty that will never abandon us; it is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be one more reason for us to do it.

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  Solitude, Trying, Cost

  "The Middle of Things: Advice for Young Writers" by Andrew Solomon, www.newyorker.com. March 11, 2015.

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• Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart; confess to yourself you would have to die if you were forbidden to write.

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  Writing, Heart, Roots

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

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• When we are only victorious over small things, it leaves us feeling small.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Feelings, Small Things

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• Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Falling In Love, Heart, Falling Apart

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1957). “The Duino elegies”

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• I want to unfold. I don’t want to stay folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie.

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  Lying, Want, Secretive

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1981). “Selected Poems”

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• Works of art are of an infinite solitude, and no means of approach is so useless as criticism. Only love can touch and hold them and be fair to them.

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  Art, Mean, Solitude

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

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• Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.

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  Beautiful, Princess, Adversity

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2012). “Letters to a Young Poet”, p.39, Courier Corporation

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• I love the dark hours of my being. My mind deepens into them. There I can find, as in old letters, the days of my life, already lived, and held like a legend, and understood.

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  Dark, Mind, Letters

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

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• It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.

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  New Beginnings, Able, Violence

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1986). “Rodin and Other Prose Pieces”

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• Death is the side of life which is turned away from us.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Death, Sides

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• For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so, because it serenely disdains to destroy us. Every angel is terrible.

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  Angel, Able, Endure

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• No, we don't accomplish our love in a single year as the flowers do; an immemorial sap flows up through our arms when we love. Dear girl, this: that we loved, inside us, not One who would someday appear, but seething multitudes; not just a single child, but also the fathers lying in our depths like fallen mountains; also the dried-up riverbeds of ancient mothers-;also the whole soundless landscape under the clouded or clear sky of its destiny -; all this, my dear, preceded you.

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  Love, Girl, Mother

  1923 Duinieser Elegien, no.3 (translated by Stephen Mitchell in The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke,1989).

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• That’s love: Two lonely persons keep each other safe and touch each other and talk to each other.

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  Lonely, Two, Safe

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• Fame is finally only the sum total of all the misunderstanding that can gather around a new name.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Names, Fame, Misunderstanding

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