Rainer Maria Rilke quotes - page 3

Destiny itself is like a wonderful wide tapestry in which every thread is guided by an unspeakably tender hand, placed beside another thread and held and carried by a hundred others. (Rainer Maria Rilke)
A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude. View quote
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That is the principle thing - not to remain with the dream, with the intention, with the being-in-the-mood, but always forcibly to convert it into all things. View quote
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Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final. View quote
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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. View quote
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When you go to bed, don't leave bread or milk on the table: it attracts the dead. View quote
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Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading. View quote
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Yet, no matter how deeply I go down into myself, my God is dark, and like a webbing made of a hundred roots that drink in silence. View quote
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you are not too old and it is not too late to dive into your increasing depths where life calmly gives out it's own secret. View quote
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I am circling around God, around the ancient tower, and I have been circling for a thousand years, and I still don't know if I am a falcon, or a storm, or a great song. View quote
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How can I keep my soul in me, so that it doesn't touch your soul? How can I raise it high enough, past you, to other things? (Rainer Maria Rilke)
He does not always remain bent over the pages; he often leans back and closes his eyes over a line he has been reading again, and its meaning spreads through his blood. View quote
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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. View quote
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Be of good courage all is before you, and time passed in the difficult is never lost... What is required of us is that we live the difficult and learn to deal with it. In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us. View quote
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I am much too alone in this world, yet not alone enough. View quote
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weren't you always distracted by expectation, as if every event announced a beloved? (Where can you find a place to keep her, with all the huge strange thoughts inside you going and coming and often staying all night.)... View quote
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Ah, not to be cut off, not through the slightest partition shut out from the law of the stars. The inner -- what is it? if not the intensified sky, hurled through with birds and deep with the winds of homecoming. View quote
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And I circle ten thousand years long; And I still don't know if I'm a falcon, a storm, or an unfinished song. View quote
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Be ahead of all parting, as though it already were behind you, like the winter that has just gone by. For among these winters there is one so endlessly winter that only by wintering through it will your heart survive. View quote
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Someday you will name me, then gently place those burning holy roses in my hair. [Songs of Longing]. View quote
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Already my gaze is upon the hill, the sunny one, at the end of the path which I've only just begun. So we are grasped, by that which we could not grasp, at such great distance, so fully manifest-and it changes us, even when we do not reach it, into something that, hardly sensing it, we already are; a sign appears, echoing our own sign... But what we sense is the falling winds. (Rainer Maria Rilke)
Love is at first not anything that means merging, giving over and uniting with another (for what would a union be of something unclarified and unfinished, still subordinate?), it is a high inducement to the individual to ripen, to become world, to become world for himself for another's sake. It is a great exacting claim upon him, something that chooses him out and calls him to vast things. View quote
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They more adeptly bend the willow's branches who have experience of the willow's roots. View quote
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I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world. View quote
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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. View quote
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