Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• And your doubt can become a good quality if you train it. It must become knowing, it must become criticism. Ask it, whenever it wants to spoil something for you, why something is ugly, demand proofs from it, test it, and you will find it perhaps bewildered and embarrassed, perhaps also protesting. But don't give in, insist on arguments, and act in this way, attentive and persistent, every single time, and the day will come when, instead of being a destroyer, it will become one of your best workers-perhaps the most intelligent of all the ones that are building your life.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Life, Time, Giving Up

• This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Love, Marriage, Insperational

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

• God speaks to each of us as he makes us, then walks with us silently out of the night. These are the words we dimly hear: You, sent out beyond your recall, go to the limits of your longing. Embody me. Flare up like a flame and make big shadows I can move in. Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final. Don't let yourself lose me. Nearby is the country they call life. You will know it by its seriousness. Give me your hand.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Country, Moving, Night

• 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

• It is true that these mysteries are dreadful, and people have always drawn away from them. But where can we find anything sweet and glorious that would never wear this mask, the mask of the dreadful? Whoever does not, sometimes or other, give his full consent, his full and joyous consent to the dreadfulness of life, can never take possession of the unutterable abundance and power of our existence; can only walk on its edge, and one day, when the judgment is given, will have been neither alive nor dead.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Sweet, People, Giving

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2014). “The Duino Elegies & The Sonnets to Orpheus: A Dual Language Edition”, p.223, Vintage

• 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)

• You see, I want a lot. Perhaps I want everything the darkness that comes with every infinite fall and the shivering blaze of every step up. So many live on and want nothing And are raised to the rank of prince By the slippery ease of their light judgments But what you love to see are faces that do work and feel thirst. You love most of all those who need you as they need a crowbar or a hoe. You have not grown old, and it is not too late To dive into your increasing depths where life calmly gives out its own secret.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Fall, Light, Hoe

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1981). “Selected Poems”

• Lord, it is time. The summer was very big. Lay thy shadow on the sundials, and on the meadows let the winds go loose. Command the last fruits that they shall be full; give them another two more southerly days, press them on to fulfillment and drive the last sweetiness into the heavenly wine.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Summer, Wine, Wind

  Rainer Maria Rilke, M. D. Herter Norton (1993). “Translations from the Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke”, p.71, W. W. Norton & Company

• you are not too old and it is not too late to dive into your increasing depths where life calmly gives out it's own secret

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Inspirational, Life, Hoe

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1981). “Selected Poems”

• All companionship can consist in only the strengthening of neighboring solitudes, giving oneself is by nature harmful to companionship: for when a person abandons himself, he is no longer anything, and when two people both give themselves up in order to become closer to each other, there is no longer any ground beneath them and their being together is a continual falling – I have learned over and over again, there is scarcely anything more difficult than to love one another.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Fall, Order, Two

• We make our way through Everything like thread passing through fabric, giving shape to images that we ourselves do not know.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Giving, Fabric, Shapes

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2007). “Letters on Life: New Prose Translations”, p.48, Modern Library

• I live my life in widening circle That reach out across the world. I may not ever complete the last one, But I give myself to it. I circle around God, that primordial tower. I have been circling for thousands of years, And I still don't know: am I a falcon, A storm, or a great song? [I, 2]

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Song, Circles, Years

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1996). “Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God”, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)

• You must give birth to your images. They are the future waiting to be born.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Future, Giving, Waiting

• I could give you no advice but this: to go into yourself and to explore the depths where your life wells forth.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Spiritual, Giving, Advice

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2012). “Letters to a Young Poet”, p.13, Courier Corporation

• Be-and yet know the great void where all things begin, the infinite source of your own most intense vibration, so that, this once, you may give it your perfect assent.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Giving, Perfect, Joy

  Rainer Maria Rilke, “The Sonnets To Orpheus: Book 2: XIII”

• There would have to be bread, some rich, whole-grain bread and zwieback, and perhaps on a long, narrow dish some pale Westphalian ham laced with strips of white fat like an evening sky with bands of clouds. There would be some tea ready to be drunk, yellowish golden tea in glasses with silver saucers, giving off a faint fragrance.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Clouds, Glasses, Sky

• I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Real, Power, Giving

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1996). “Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God”, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)

• You must give birth to your images. They are the future waiting to be born. Fear not the strangeness you feel. The future must enter you long before it happens. Just wait for the birth, for the the hour of the new clarity.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Long, Giving, Waiting

• For our part, when we feel, we evaporate; ah, we breathe ourselves out and away; with each new heartfire we give off a fainter scent. True, someone may tell us: you're in my blood, this room, Spring itself is filled with you . . . To what end? He can't hold us, we vanish within him and around him.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Spring, Blood, Giving

• You, God, who live next door - If at times, through the long night, I trouble you with my urgent knocking - this is why: I hear you breathe so seldom. I know you're all alone in that room. If you should be thirsty, there's no one to get you a glass of water. I wait listening, always. Just give me a sign! I'm right here... Sen komşu tanrı, Uzun geceler bazen, Kapına vura vura uyandırıyorsam seni Solumanı seyrek duyduğumdandır... Bilirim, yalnızsın odanda. Sana birşey gerekse kimse yok, Bir yudum su versin aradığında. Hep dinlerim, yeter ki bir ses edin, Öyle yakınım sana.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Night, Glasses, Doors

• Why should you want to give up a child's wise not-understanding in exchange for defensiveness and scorn, since not-understanding is, after all, a way of being alone, whereas defensiveness and scorn are a participation in precisely what, by these means, you want to separate yourself from.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Wise, Children, Giving Up

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

• To be loved means to be consumed. To love is to give light with inexhaustible oil. To be loved is to pass away, to love is to endure.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Love, Mean, Light

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1984). “Prose and poetry”, Burns & Oates

• Society has been able to create refuges of every sort, for since it preferred to take love-life as an amusement, it also had to give it an easy form, cheap, safe, and sure, as public amusements are.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Love Life, Giving, Amusement

• Love is something difficult and it is more difficult than other things because in other conflicts nature herself enjoins men to collect themselves, to take themselves firmly in the hand with all their strength, while in the heightening of love the impulse is to give oneself wholly away.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Love Is, Men, Hands

  Rainer Maria Rilke, John J. L. Mood (1994). “Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations”, p.35, W. W. Norton & Company

• Our being is continually undergoing and entering upon changes. ... We must, strictly speaking, at every moment give each other up and let each other go and not hold each other back.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Change, Giving, Entering

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1945). “Letters”

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