Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes About Animals

Quotes about: Animals

• Verses are not, as people think, feelings (those one has early enough) -- they are experiences. For the sake of a verse one must see many cities, men, and things, one must know the animals feel how birds fly, and know the gesture with which the little flowers open in the morning.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Morning, Flower, Animal

  Rainer Maria Rilke, John J. L. Mood (1994). “Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations”, p.112, W. W. Norton & Company

• You darkness, that I come from, I love you more than all the fires that fence in the world, for the fire makes a circle of light for everyone, and then no one outside learns of you. But the darkness pulls in everything: shapes and fires, animals and myself, how easily it gathers them! - powers and people - and it is possible a great energy is moving near me. I have faith in nights.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  I Love You More, Moving, Animal

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1981). “Selected Poems”

• And do not change. Do not divert your love from visible things. But go on loving what is good, simple and ordinary; animals and things and flowers, and keep the balance true.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Spiritual, Flower, Animal

• Everything in the world of things and animals is still filled with happening, which you can take part in.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Animal, World, Filled

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

• Animals see the unobstructed world with their whole eyes. But our eyes, turned back upon themselves, encircle and seek to snare the world, setting traps for freedom.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Eye, Animal, World

• If there is nothing you can share with other people, try to be close to Things, they will not abandon you; and the nights are still here and the winds that move through the trees and across many lands; everything in the world of Things and animals is still filled with happening, which you can take part in.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Moving, Animal, Night

• The thought of being a creator, of engendering, of shaping is nothing without the continuous great confirmation and embodiment in the world, nothing without the thousandfold assent from Things and animals... beautiful and rich only because it is full of inherited memories of the engendering and birthing of millions.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Beautiful, Memories, Animal

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

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