Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Book, Heart, Trying

  "Letters to a Young Poet". Book by Rainer Maria Rilke. Letter Four (July 16, 1903), 1929.

• Sometime we will have to stop overevaluating the word. We shall learn to realize that it is only one of the many bridges that connect the island of our soul with the great continent of common life. . . the broadest, perhaps, but in no way the most refined.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Islands, Bridges, Soul

• Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Air, Cities, Names

  "Worpswede". Book by Rainer Maria Rilke, 1903.

• The deep parts of my life pour onward, as if the river shores were opening out. I feel closer to what language can't reach. With my senses, as with birds, I climb into the windy heaven... in the ponds broken off from the sky. . .

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Sky, Rivers, Broken

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2004). “Sonnets to Orpheus”, p.32, Shambhala Publications

• Music: breathing of statues. Perhaps: silence of paintings. You language where all language ends. You time standing vertically on the motion of mortal hearts.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Heart, Breathing, Silence

  Rainer Maria Rilke, “To Music”

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