Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes About Angels

Quotes about: Angels

• Every angel is terrifying.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Angel, Elegy

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

• If the Angel deigns to appear, it will be because you have convinced him, not by tears but by your humble resolve to be always beginning — to be a Beginner!

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Inspirational, Humble, Angel

  "Letters to Merline, 1919-1922".

• Don't take my devils away, because my angels may flee too.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Angel, Devil, May

• 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.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Angel, Able, Endure

• If my devils are to leave me, I'm afraid my angels will take flight as well.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Angel, Devil, Flight

• Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels'hierarchies? and even if one of thempressed me against his heart: I would be consumedin that overwhelming existence. For beauty is nothingbut the beginning of terror, which we still are just able to endure,and we are so awed because it serenely disdainsto annihilate us. Every angel is terrifying.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Heart, Angel, Would Be

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

• In the night, I wish to speak with the angel to find out if she recognizes my eyes, if she will ask me: do you see Eden? And I’ll reply: Eden burns.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Eye, Angel, Night

• My loving friend, you see, my life was never given a foundation, no one was able to imagine what it would want to become. In Venice there stands the so-called Ca del Duca, a princely foundation, on which later the most wretched tenement came to be built. With me it's the opposite: the beautiful arched elevations of my spirit rest on the most tentative beginning; a wooden scaffolding, a few boards....Is that why I feel inhibited in raising the nave, the tower to which the weight of the great bells is to be hoisted (by angels, who else could do it)?

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Beautiful, Angel, Opposites

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