Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes About Lying

Quotes about: Lying

• I want to unfold. I don’t want to stay folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Lying, Want, Secretive

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1981). “Selected Poems”

• I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each shall stand guard over the solitude of the other. For, if it lies in the nature of indifference and of the crowd to recognize no solitude, then love and friendship are there for the purpose of continually providing the opportunity for solitude. And only those are the true sharings which rhythmically interrupt periods of deep isolation.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Lying, Opportunity, Two

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1960). “Selected letters”

• Fate loves to invent patterns and designs. Its difficulty lies in complexity. But life itself is difficult because of its simplicity. It has only a few things of a grandeur not fit for us.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Life, Lying, Fate

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

• I don't want to stay folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Inspirational, Lying, Want

  "Selected Poems".

• 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).

• The artist's experience lies so unbelievably close to the sexual, to its pain and its pleasure, that the two phenomena are really just different forms of one and the same longing and bliss.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Sex, Pain, Lying

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

• I don’t want to stand before you like a thing, shrewd, secretive. I want my own will, and I want simply to be with my will, as it goes toward action. And in the silent, sometimes hardly moving times, when something is coming near, I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone. I want to unfold. I don’t want to be folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Lying, Moving, Secret

• I want to unfold. I don't want to stay folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie, and I want my grasp of things to be true. I want to describe myself like a painting that I looked at closely for a long time,
  like a saying that I finally understood, like the pitcher I use every day,
  like the face of my mother, like a ship that carried me through the wildest storm of all.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Mother, Lying, Long

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1981). “Selected Poems”

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