Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes About Flowers

Quotes about: Flowers

• 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

• The flower bends when the wind wants it to, and you must become like that-that is, filled with deep #‎ trust .

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Flower, Wind, Want

• This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess of that precious nourishing love from which flowers and children have their strength and which could help all human beings if they would take it without doubting.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Love, Children, Flower

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1969). “Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910”, p.297, W. W. Norton & Company

• Fig tree, how long it's been full meaning for me, the way you almost entirely omit to flower and into the seasonably-resolute fruit uncelebratedly thrust your purest secret. Like the tube of a fountain, your bent bough drives the sap downwards and up: and it leaps from its sleep, scarce waking, into the joy of its sweetest achievement.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Flower, Sleep, Long

• Look, we don't love like flowers with only one season behind us; when we love, a sap older than memory rises in our arms.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Memories, Flower, Looks

  Rainer Maria Rilke, A. Poulin, Mark Doty (2005). “Duino Elegies and The Sonnets to Orpheus”, p.23, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• 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

• 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).

• And one of the things I find most moving is the way people with infirmities manage to embrace Life, and from the cool flowers by the wayside reach conclusions about the vast splendour of its great gardens. They can, if their souls' strings are finely tuned, arrive with much less effort at the feeling of eternity; for everything we do, they may dream. And precisely where our deeds end, theirs begin to bear fruit.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Dream, Flower, Moving

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1998). “Diaries of a Young Poet”, p.46, W. W. Norton & Company

• Trees do not force their sap, nor does the flower push its bloom.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Flower, Tree, Doe

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