Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes

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Rainer Maria Rilke

Profession : Poet

Birth : December 4, 1875

The only journey is the one within.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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

Rainer Maria Rilke

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

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

Rainer Maria Rilke

A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rainer Maria Rilke

The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.

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

Rainer Maria Rilke

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.

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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.

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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.

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And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.

Rainer Maria Rilke

No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.

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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.

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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.

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More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.

Rainer Maria Rilke

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke