Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes - Page 5

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• If the Angel deigns to appear, it will be because you have convinced him, not by tears but by your humble resolve to be always beginning — to be a Beginner!

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Inspirational, Humble, Angel

  "Letters to Merline, 1919-1922".

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• Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Art, Gone, Way

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2002). “Letters on Cézanne”, p.4, Macmillan

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• Life + a cat ... adds up to an incalculable sum.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Cat, Add

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• Think... of the world you carry within you.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Healing, Thinking, World

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• 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

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• It is clear that we must embrace struggle. Every living thing conforms to it. Everything in nature grows and struggles in its own way, establishing its own identity, insisting on it at all cost, against all resistance.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Struggle, Identity, Cost

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2010). “Letters to a Young Poet”, p.62, New World Library

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• Solitude is nothing that one can choose or retrain from. We are solitary. We can delude ourselves about this and act as if it were not true. That is all.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Solitude, Solitary, Ifs

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• I could give you no advice but this: to go into yourself and to explore the depths where your life wells forth.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Spiritual, Giving, Advice

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2012). “Letters to a Young Poet”, p.13, Courier Corporation

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• This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess of that precious nourishing love from which flowers and children have their strength and which could help all human beings if they would take it without doubting.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Love, Children, Flower

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1969). “Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910”, p.297, W. W. Norton & Company

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• We make our way through Everything like thread passing through fabric, giving shape to images that we ourselves do not know.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Giving, Fabric, Shapes

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2007). “Letters on Life: New Prose Translations”, p.48, Modern Library

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• God speaks to each of us as he makes us,
  then walks with us silently out of the night.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Night, Speak, Walks

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1996). “Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God”, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)

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• All companionship can consist in only the strengthening of neighboring solitudes, giving oneself is by nature harmful to companionship: for when a person abandons himself, he is no longer anything, and when two people both give themselves up in order to become closer to each other, there is no longer any ground beneath them and their being together is a continual falling – I have learned over and over again, there is scarcely anything more difficult than to love one another.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Fall, Order, Two

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• We ignore the gods and fill our minds with trash.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Mind, Trash

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• Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Nature, Spring, Heart

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1969). “Letters”

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• And isn't the whole world yours? For how often you set it on fire with your love and saw it blaze and burn up and secretly replaced it with another world while everyone slept. You felt in such complete harmony with God, when every morning you asked him for a new earth, so that all the ones he had made could have their turn. You thought it would be shabby to save them and repair them; you used them up and held out your hands, again and again, for more world. For your love was equal to everything.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Life, Morning, Fire

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• Earth, my dearest, oh believe me, you no longer need your springtimes to win me over...Unspeakably, I have belonged to you, from the flush.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Believe, Winning, Needs

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• Works of art always spring from those who have faced the danger, gone to the very end of an experience, to the point beyond which no human being can go. The further one dares to go, the more decent, the more personal, the more unique a life becomes.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Art, Spring, Unique

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• So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Rainer Maria Rilke, “A Walk”

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• He who understands one thing understands everything, for the same laws are in all.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Law, One Thing

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• No one can advise and help you, no one. There is only one way: go within.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Way, Helping, Existentialism

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• You have had many sadnesses, large ones, which passed. ... But please, ask yourself whether these large sadnesses haven't rather gone right through you [that is, passed through you]. Perhaps many things inside you have been transformed; perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while you were sad.

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  Life, Sadness, Important

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• Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Love, Life, Sexy

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• Often a star was waiting for you to notice it. A wave rolled toward you out of the distant path, or as you walked under an open window, a violin yielded itself to your hearing. All this was mission.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Stars, Waiting, Violin

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2014). “The Duino Elegies & The Sonnets to Orpheus: A Dual Language Edition”, p.3, Vintage

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• Don't be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you; simply let it happen. Otherwise it will be too easy for you to look with blame... at your past, which naturally has a share with everything that now meets you.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Change, Past, Looks

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• Be, in this immensity of night, the magic force at your sense's crossroad.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Night, Magic, Force

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