Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes About Destiny

Quotes about: Destiny

• Destiny itself is like a wonderful wide tapestry in which every thread is guided by an unspeakable tender hand, placed beside another thread and held and carried by a hundred others.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Destiny, Hands, Wonderful

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2010). “Letters to a Young Poet”, p.24, New World Library

• Your life will still find its own paths from there, and that they may be good, rich, and wide is what I wish for you, more than I can say.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Life, Destiny, Wish

  "Letters to a Young Poet".

• 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

• No, we don't accomplish our love in a single year as the flowers do; an immemorial sap flows up through our arms when we love. Dear girl, this: that we loved, inside us, not One who would someday appear, but seething multitudes; not just a single child, but also the fathers lying in our depths like fallen mountains; also the dried-up riverbeds of ancient mothers-;also the whole soundless landscape under the clouded or clear sky of its destiny -; all this, my dear, preceded you.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Love, Girl, Mother

  1923 Duinieser Elegien, no.3 (translated by Stephen Mitchell in The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke,1989).

• Go into yourself and test the deeps in which your life takes rise; at its source you will find the answer to the question whether you must create. Accept it, just as it sounds, without inquiring into it. Perhaps it will turn out that you are called to be an artist. Then take that destiny upon yourself and bear it, its burden and its greatness, without ever asking what reward might come from outside

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Artist, Greatness, Destiny

• Nothing strange should befall us, but only that which has long belonged to us. We will gradually learn to realize that that which we call destiny goes forth from within people, not from without into them.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Destiny, Long, People

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