Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes

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Rainer Maria Rilke

Profession : Poet

Birth : December 4, 1875

I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.

Rainer Maria Rilke

All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.

Rainer Maria Rilke

It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.

Rainer Maria Rilke

All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Truly to sing, that is a different breath.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.

Rainer Maria Rilke

There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.

Rainer Maria Rilke

He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog.

Rainer Maria Rilke

There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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

Rainer Maria Rilke

There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.

Rainer Maria Rilke

There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.

Rainer Maria Rilke