Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes - Page 9

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• Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Patience, Ego, Solitude

  "Sunbeams: A Book of Quotations". Book edited by Sy Safransky, p. 42, 1990.

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• Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.

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  Beautiful, Princess, Adversity

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2012). “Letters to a Young Poet”, p.39, Courier Corporation

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• They, who passed away long ago, still exist in us, as predisposition, as burden upon our fate, as murmuring blood, and as gesture that rises up from the depths of time.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Fate, Long Ago, Blood

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

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• Success, which is something so simple in the end, is made up of thousands of things, we never fully know what.

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  Success, Simple, Ends

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1969). “Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910”, p.269, W. W. Norton & Company

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• That’s love: Two lonely persons keep each other safe and touch each other and talk to each other.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Lonely, Two, Safe

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• Fame is finally only the sum total of all the misunderstanding that can gather around a new name.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Names, Fame, Misunderstanding

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• It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  New Beginnings, Able, Violence

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1986). “Rodin and Other Prose Pieces”

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• For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so, because it serenely disdains to destroy us. Every angel is terrible.

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  Angel, Able, Endure

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• I am the rest between two notes which are somehow always in discord.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Two, Notes, Discord

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• If my devils are to leave me, I'm afraid my angels will take flight as well.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Angel, Devil, Flight

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• But there is much beauty here, because there is much beauty everywhere.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Beauty Everywhere

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2013). “Letters to a Young Poet”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• ...a carefree letting go of oneself, not a caution, but a wise blindness.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Letting Go, Wise, Carefree

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• I learn it every day of my life, learn it with pain I am grateful for: patience is everything!

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Patience, Pain, Grateful

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

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• You, darkness, of whom I am born- I love you more than the flame that limits the world to the circle it illumines and excludes the rest.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  I Love You More, Flames, Circles

  Rainer Maria Rilke, Anita Barrows, Joanna Macy (1996). “Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God”, Riverhead Trade (Paperbacks)

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• Every angel is terrifying.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Angel, Elegy

  Duino Elegies no. 1 (written 1912) (translation by Stephen Mitchell)

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• But because truly being here is so much; because everything here apparently needs us, this fleeting world, which in some strange way keeps calling to us. Us, the most fleeting of all.

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  Fleeting World, Needs, Calling

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2014). “The Duino Elegies & The Sonnets to Orpheus: A Dual Language Edition”, p.55, Vintage

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• If you will cling to Nature, to the simple in Nature, to the little things that hardly anyone sees, and that can so unexpectedly become big and beyond measuring; if you have this love of inconsiderable things and seek quite simply, as one who serves, to win the confidence of what seems poor: then everything will become easier, more coherent and somehow more conciliatory for you, not in your intellect, perhaps, which lags marveling behind, but in your inmost consciousness, waking and cognizance.

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  Nature, Winning, Simple

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• The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Women, Creativity, Receiving

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1969). “Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910”, p.181, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Death is the side of life which is turned away from us.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Death, Sides

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• I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Book, Heart, Trying

  "Letters to a Young Poet". Book by Rainer Maria Rilke. Letter Four (July 16, 1903), 1929.

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• The only sadnesses that are dangerous and unhealthy are the ones that we carry around in public in order to drown them out with the noise.

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  Sadness, Order, Noise

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

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• We are unutterably alone essentially, especially in the things most intimate and most important.

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  Important, Intimate

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2010). “Letters to a Young Poet”, p.18, New World Library

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• Were it possible for us to see further than our knowledge reaches, and yet a little way beyond the outworks of our divinings, perhaps we would endure our sadnesses with greater confidence than our joys. For they are the moments when something new has entered into us, something unknown; our feelings grow mute in shy perplexity, everything in us withdraws, a stillness comes, and the new, which no one knows, stands in the midst of it and is silent.

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  Sadness, Joy, Feelings

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• In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Life, Adversity, Hands

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1969). “Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910”, p.181, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Every intensification is good, if it is in your entire blood, if it isn't intoxication or muddiness, but joy which you can see into, clear to the bottom.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Blood, Joy, Intoxication

  "Letters to a Young Poet" by Rainer Maria Rilke, Letter Nine (4 November 1904), 1934.

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