Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes About Memories

Quotes about: Memories

• And still it is not enough to have memories. One must be able to forget them when they are many, and one must have the great patience to wait until they come again. For it is not yet the memories themselves. Not until they have turned to blood within us, to glance, to gesture, nameless and no longer to be distinguished from ourselves - not until then can it happen that in a most rare hour the first word of a verse arises in their midst and goes forth from them.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Memories, Blood, Waiting

• 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 even if you were in some prison, the walls of which let none of the sounds of the world come to your senses - would you not then still have your childhood, that precious, kingly possession, that treasure-house of memories?

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Wall, Memories, House

• a kind of memory that tells us that what we're now striving for was once nearer and truer and attached to us with infinite tenderness. Here all is distance, there it was breath. After the first home the second one seems draughty and strangely sexed.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Memories, Distance, Home

• The thought of being a creator, of engendering, of shaping is nothing without the continuous great confirmation and embodiment in the world, nothing without the thousandfold assent from Things and animals... beautiful and rich only because it is full of inherited memories of the engendering and birthing of millions.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Beautiful, Memories, Animal

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

• Describe your sorrows and desires, passing thoughts and the belief in some sort of beauty-describe all these with loving, quiet, humble sincerity, and use, to express yourself, the things in your environment, the images from your dreams, and the objects of your memory.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Dream, Memories, Humble

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