Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes About Childhood

Quotes about: Childhood

• You who let yourselves feel: enter the breathing
  That is more than your own.
  Let it brush your cheeks
  As it divides and rejoins behind you.
  
  The trees you planted in childhood have grown
  Too heavy. You cannot bring them along.
  Give yourselves to the air, to what you cannot hold.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Air, Breathing, Giving

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2005). “In Praise of Mortality: Selections from Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus”, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)

• Think... of the world you carry within you, and call this thinking whatever you want to: a remembering of your own childhood or a yearning toward a future of your own - only be attentive to what is arising within you, and place that above everything you perceive around you. What is happening in your innermost self is worthy of your entire love; somehow you must find a way to work at it.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Healing, Thinking, Self

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

• I prayed to rediscover my childhood, and it has come back, and I feel that it is just as difficult as it used to be, and that growing older has served no purpose at all.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Childhood, Purpose, Growing

  1910 DieAufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge (translated by Stephen Mitchell inThe Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1989).

• To have a childhood means to live a thousand lives before the one.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Mean, Childhood, Thousand

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2007). “Letters on Life: New Prose Translations”, p.77, Modern Library

• Never believe fate is more than the condensation of childhood.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Believe, Fate, Destiny

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2013). “Duino Elegies/Duineser Elegien: A Dual-Language Book”, p.53, Courier Corporation

• And even if you were in some prison, the walls of which let none of the sounds of the world come to your senses - would you not then still have your childhood, that precious, kingly possession, that treasure-house of memories?

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Wall, Memories, House

• Do you remember how life yearned out of childhood toward the "great thing?" I see that it is now yearning forth beyond the great thing toward the greater one.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Childhood, Remember, Longing

• Look, I am living. On what? Neither childhood nor future lessens . . . . Superabundant existence wells in my heart.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Heart, Childhood, Looks

  Rainer Maria Rilke, Lou Andreas-Salomé (2008). “Rilke and Andreas-Salomé: A Love Story in Letters”, p.303, W. W. Norton & Company

• Do you recall, from your childhood on, how very much this life of yours has longed for greatness? I see it now, how from the vantage point of greatness it longs for even greater greatness. That is why it does not let up being difficult, but that is also why it will not cease to grow.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Greatness, Childhood, Doe

• Children are still the way you were as a child, sad and happy in just the same way-and if you think of your childhood, you once again live among them, among the solitary children.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Children, Thinking, Sad And Happy

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

• All feelings that concentrate you and lift you up are pure; only that feeling is impure which grasps just one side of your being and thus distorts you. Everything you can think of as you face your childhood, is good. Everything that makes more of you than you have ever been, even in your best hours, is right. Every intensification is good, if it is in your entire blood, if it isn't intoxication or muddiness, but joy which you can see into, clear to the bottom.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Thinking, Blood, Childhood

  "Letters to a Young Poet". Book by Rainer Maria Rilke. Letter Nine (November 04, 1904), 1929.

• Sex is difficult, yes. But they are difficult things with which we have been charged...If you only recognize this and manage out of yourself, out of your own nature and ways, out of your own experience and childhood and strength to achieve a relation to sex wholly your own (not influenced by convention and custom) then you need no longer be afraid of losing yourself and becoming unworthy of your best possession.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Sex, Childhood, Needs

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