Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes About Walking

Quotes about: Walking

• Look, lovers: almost separately they come towards us through the flowery grass and slowly; parting's so far from thought of, they indulge the extravagance of walking unembraced.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Looks, Extravagance, Lovers

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1976). “Poems, 1906 to 1926”

• My eyes already touch the sunny hill. Going far ahead of the road I have begun. So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp; it has inner light, even from a distance- and charges us, even if we do not reach it, into something else, which, hardly sensing it, we already are; a gesture waves us on answering our own wave... but what we feel is the wind in our faces.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Distance, Eye, Light

  Rainer Maria Rilke, “A Walk”

• most people come to know only one corner of their room, one spot near the window, one narrow strip on which they keep walking back and forth.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  People, Rooms, Window

• She followed slowly, taking a long time, As though there were some obstacles in the way; And yet: as though, once it was overcome, She would be beyond all walking, and would fly.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Long, Would Be, Way

  Rainer Maria Rilke, Walter W. Arndt (1989). “The Best of Rilke: 72 Form-true Verse Translations with Facing Originals, Commentary, and Compact Biography ; Translated by Walter Arndt ; Foreword by Cyrus Hamlin”, p.166, UPNE

• sometimes a man stands up during supper and walks outdoors, and keeps on walking, because of a church that stands somewhere in the East. And his children say blessings on him as if he were dead. And another man, who remains inside his own house, stays there, inside the dishes and in the glasses, so that his children have to go far out into the world toward that same church, which he forgot.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Children, Blessing, Men

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1981). “Selected Poems”

• Stand up during supper and walk outdoors, and keep on walking.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Walks, Supper, Walking

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1981). “Selected Poems”

• I would like to step out of my heart
  and go walking beneath the enormous sky.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Heart, Sky, Steps

  Rainer Maria Rilke, “Lament”

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