Rainer Maria Rilke quotes - page 5

If no one else, the dying must notice how unreal, how full of pretense, is all that we accomplish here, where nothing is allowed to be itself. (Rainer Maria Rilke)
But there is much beauty here, because there is much beauty everywhere. View quote
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Comfort me from wherever you are–alone, we are quickly worn out; if I place my head on the road, let it seem softened by you. Could it be that even from afar we offer each other a gentle breath? View quote
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Perhaps the same bird echoed through both of us yesterday, seperate, in the evening. View quote
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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. View quote
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As if no one had ever tried before, try to say what you see and feel and love and lose. View quote
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Strangely, I heard a stranger say, I am with you. View quote
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Right in the difficult we must have our joys, our happiness, our dreams: there against the depth of this background, they stand out, there for the first time we see how beautiful they are. View quote
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But because truly being here is so much; because everything here apparently needs us, this fleeting world, which in some strange way keeps calling to us. Us, the most fleeting of all. View quote
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Whoever you are, go out into the evening, leaving your room, of which you know every bit; your house is the last before the infinite, whoever you are. View quote
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A work of art is good if it has grown out of necessity. (Rainer Maria Rilke)
Girls, there are poets who learn from you to say, what you, in your aloneness, are; and they learn through you to live distantness, as the evenings through the great stars become accustomed to eternity. View quote
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The highest form of love is to be the protector of another person's solitude. View quote
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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. View quote
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There is only one journey. Going inside yourself. View quote
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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. View quote
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Perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while you were sad. View quote
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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. View quote
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Whoever has no house now, will never have one. Whoever is alone will stay alone, will sit, read, write long letters through the evening, and wander on the boulevards, up and down, restlessly, while dry leaves are blowing. View quote
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I have never been aware before how many faces there are. There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several. View quote
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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)
It's possible, I'm moving through the hard veins of heavy mountains, like an arc, alone; I'm so deep inside, I see no end in sight, and no distance: everything is getting near and everything near is turning to stone. View quote
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There are a large number of people in the room, but one is unaware of them. They are in the books. At times they move among the pages, like sleepers turning over between two dreams. Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading. View quote
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So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp. View quote
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Life is heavier than the weight of all things. View quote
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