Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes - Page 11

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• Irony: Don't let yourself be controlled by it, especially during uncreative moments.

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  Irony, Moments, Cynicism

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

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• What we call fate does not come into us from the outside, but emerges from us.

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  Fate, Doe

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2014). “The Duino Elegies & The Sonnets to Orpheus: A Dual Language Edition”, p.266, Vintage

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• Life is cut to allow for growth ... one may vigorously put on weight before one fills it out entirely.

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  Cutting, Growth, Weight

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• 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.

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  Giving, Perfect, Joy

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

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• Your life will still find its own paths from there, and that they may be good, rich, and wide is what I wish for you, more than I can say.

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  Life, Destiny, Wish

  "Letters to a Young Poet".

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• I am learning to see. I don't know why it is, but everything enters me more deeply and doesn't stop where it once used to. I have an interior that I never knew of... What's the use of telling someone that I am changing? If I'm changing, I am no longer who I was; and if I am something else, it's obvious that I have no acquaintances. And I can't possibly write to strangers.

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  Writing, Use, Stranger

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• Go into yourself and test the deeps in which your life takes rise; at its source you will find the answer to the question whether you must create. Accept it, just as it sounds, without inquiring into it. Perhaps it will turn out that you are called to be an artist. Then take that destiny upon yourself and bear it, its burden and its greatness, without ever asking what reward might come from outside

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  Artist, Greatness, Destiny

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• Girls, there are poets who learn from you to say, what you, in your aloneness, are; and they learn through you to live distantness, as the evenings through the great stars become accustomed to eternity.

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  Girl, Stars, Evening

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2014). “The Book of Images”, p.17, North Point Press

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• I am like a child who awakes At the light, so safe and secureFree from night's fears when dawn breaks, In Thee I am ever secure.

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  God, Children, Night

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• 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.

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  Love, Girl, Mother

  1923 Duinieser Elegien, no.3 (translated by Stephen Mitchell in The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke,1989).

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• What keeps you from... living your life as a painful and lovely day in the history of a great pregnancy?

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  Pregnancy, Live Your Life, Lovely

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

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• I prayed to rediscover my childhood, and it has come back, and I feel that it is just as difficult as it used to be, and that growing older has served no purpose at all.

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  Childhood, Purpose, Growing

  1910 DieAufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge (translated by Stephen Mitchell inThe Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1989).

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• Truly to sing, that is a different breath.

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  Music, Piano, Different

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• Be ahead of all parting, as though it already were behind you, like the winter that has just gone by. For among these winters there is one so endlessly winter that only by wintering through it will your heart survive.

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  Heart, Winter, Gone

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

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• Whoever now makes himself bigger, freer and more human in his own existence, is doing his part toward peace, — as yet it must be worked at in an inward direction, not until a few have it all big and ready within them can it let itself be brought into the world.

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  Existence, Humans

  "Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910".

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• The leaves are falling, falling as if from far up,as if orchards were dying high in space.Each leaf falls as if it were motioning "no."And tonight the heavy earth is fallingaway from all other stars in the loneliness.We're all falling. This hand here is falling.And look at the other one. It's in them all.And yet there is Someone, whose handsinfinitely calm, holding up all this falling.

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  Stars, Loneliness, Fall

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1981). “Selected Poems”

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• In one creative thought a thousand forgotten nights of love revive, filling it with sublimity and exaltation.

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  Night, Creative, Exaltation

  Rainer Maria Rilke, John J. L. Mood (1994). “Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations”, p.42, W. W. Norton & Company

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• We wasters of sorrows! How we stare away into sad endurance beyond them, trying to foresee their end! Whereas they are nothing else than our winter foliage, our sombre evergreen, one of the seasons of our interior year.

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  Winter, Years, Sorrow

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

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• Be patient with all that is unsolved in your life. Learn to love the questions themselves, until some distant day, without your knowing, you will have lived into the answers.

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  Knowing, Answers, Patient

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• Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and great each other.

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  Falling In Love, Two, Solitude

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• Strangely, I heard a stranger say, I am with you.

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  Stranger, Heard

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• Be patient with all that is uncertain in your heart...do not search for answers, which will not be given: you will not be able to live them, and its importat to live everything.

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  Life, Heart, Answers

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• 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. . .

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  Sky, Rivers, Broken

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

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• If only we arrange our life according to that principle which counsels us that we must hold to the difficult, then that which now still seems to us the most alien will become what we most trust and find most faithful.

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  Faithful, Principles, Aliens

  Rainer Maria Rilke, John J. L. Mood (1994). “Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations”, p.119, W. W. Norton & Company

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• In this there is no measuring with time, a year doesn’t matter, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means: not numbering and counting, but ripening like a tree, which doesn’t force its sap, and stands confidently in the storms of spring, not afraid that afterward summer may not come. It does come. But it comes only to those who are patient, who are there as if eternity lay before them, so unconcernedly silent and vast. I learn it every day of my life, learn it with pain I am grateful for: patience is everything!

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  Summer, Pain, Spring

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

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