Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes - Page 6

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• Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading!

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Book, Reading, People

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1930). “The Journal of My Other Self”

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• the knowledge of impermanence that haunts our days is their very fragrance.

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  Impermanence, Fragrance

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2005). “In Praise of Mortality: Selections from Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus”, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)

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• 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.

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  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

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• The moments when something new has entered us, something unknown; our feelings grow mute in shy embarrassment, everything in us withdraws, a silence arises, and the new experience, which no one knows, stands in the midst of it all and says nothing.

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  New Experiences, Silence, Feelings

  Rainer Maria Rilke, Maurice Betz, Will Stone (2012). “Rilke in Paris”, p.51, Hesperus Press

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• Religion is something infinitely simple, ingenuous. It is not knowledge, not content of feeling... it is not duty and not renunciation, it is not restriction: but in the infinite extent of the universe it is a direction of the heart.

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  Heart, Simple, Feelings

  Rainer Maria Rilke “Letters: 1910-1926”

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• Everything that makes more of you than you have ever been, even in your best hours, is right. Every intensification is good.

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  Hours

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

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• Destiny itself is like a wonderful wide tapestry in which every thread is guided by an unspeakable tender hand, placed beside another thread and held and carried by a hundred others.

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  Destiny, Hands, Wonderful

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2010). “Letters to a Young Poet”, p.24, New World Library

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• Always trust yourself and your own feelings, as opposed to arguments and discussions. If it turns out that you are wrong, then the natural growth of your inner life will eventually guide you to other insights.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Trust, Feelings, Growth

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• Yet everything that touches us, me and you, takes us together like a violin's bow, which draws one voice out of two separate strings.

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  Two, Voice, Together

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2015). “Ahead of All Parting: The Selected Poetry and Prose of Rainer Maria Rilke”, p.41, Modern Library

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• You must think that something is happening upon you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand; it will not let you fall.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Fall, Hands, Forgotten

  "Letters to a Young Poet".

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• Every happiness is the child of a separation it did not think it could survive.

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  Heartbreak, Children, Betrayal

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2005). “In Praise of Mortality: Selections from Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus”, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)

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• What is happening on your innermost self is worthy of your entire love.

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  Self, Worthy, Happenings

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

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• God... sat down for a moment when the dog was finished in order to watch it... and to know that it was good, that nothing was lacking, that it could not have been made better.

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  Dog, Order, Watches

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1964). “New poems”, Vintage

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• You are also the physician who must watch over yourself. But in the course of every illness there are many days in which the physician can do nothing but wait.

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  Waiting, Over You, Physicians

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2010). “Letters to a Young Poet”, p.81, New World Library

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• May you gain more and more confidence in what is difficult and in your solitude among other people.

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  Confidence, People, Solitude

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

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• And do not change. Do not divert your love from visible things. But go on loving what is good, simple and ordinary; animals and things and flowers, and keep the balance true.

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  Spiritual, Flower, Animal

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• Don't observe yourself too closely. Don't be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you; simply let it happen.

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  Observation, Conclusion, Draws

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

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• Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.

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  Love, Measles, Love You

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• May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children.

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  Nature, Children, Integrity

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

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• Do not be bewildered by the surfaces: in the depths all becomes law.

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  Powerful, Law, Depth

  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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• Keep growing quietly and seriously throughout your whole development; you cannot disturb it more rudely than by looking outward and expecting from outside replies to questions that only your inmost feeling in your most hushed hour can perhaps answer.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Feelings, Growth, Development

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• Someday you will name me, then gently place those burning holy roses in my hair.

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  Hair, Names, Rose

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

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  Inspirational, Lying, Want

  "Selected Poems".

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• Somewhere there is an ancient enmity between our daily life and the great work. Help me in saying it, to understand it.

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  Enmity, Helping, Daily Life

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• Go on loving what is good, simple, and ordinary.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Love, Simple, Ordinary

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