Do you remember how life yearned out of childhood toward the "great thing?" I see that it is now yearning forth beyond the great thing toward the greater one. Rainer Maria Rilke More Quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke More Quotes From Rainer Maria Rilke Most people have turned their solutions toward what is easy and toward the easiest side of the easy; but it is clear that we must trust in what is difficult; everything alive trusts in it. Rainer Maria Rilke alive inspirational people Verses are not, as people think, feelings (those one has early enough) -- they are experiences. For the sake of a verse one must see many cities, men, and things, one must know the animals feel how birds fly, and know the gesture with which the little flowers open in the morning. Rainer Maria Rilke flower animal morning 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 violin stars waiting Whoever now makes himself bigger, freer and more human in his own existence, is doing his part toward peace, — as yet it must be worked at in an inward direction, not until a few have it all big and ready within them can it let itself be brought into the world. Rainer Maria Rilke existence humans I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world. Rainer Maria Rilke circles community life Thus we live, forever taking leave. Rainer Maria Rilke dying spiritual forever We wasters of sorrows! How we stare away into sad endurance beyond them, trying to foresee their end! Whereas they are nothing else than our winter foliage, our sombre evergreen, one of the seasons of our interior year. Rainer Maria Rilke sorrow winter years I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me. Rainer Maria Rilke real power giving Irony: Don't let yourself be controlled by it, especially during uncreative moments. Rainer Maria Rilke irony cynicism moments Read as little as possible of literary criticism - such things are either partisan opinions, which have become petrified and meaningless, hardened and empty of life, or else they are just clever word-games, in which one view wins today, and tomorrow the opposite view. Works of art are of an infinite solitude, and no means of approach is so useless as criticism. Rainer Maria Rilke clever mean art Fame is finally only the sum total of all the misunderstanding that can gather around a new name. Rainer Maria Rilke misunderstanding names fame To have a childhood means to live a thousand lives before the one. Rainer Maria Rilke childhood thousand mean 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 riches poverty blame A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it. Rainer Maria Rilke creative judging art Be-and yet know the great void where all things begin, the infinite source of your own most intense vibration, so that, this once, you may give it your perfect assent. Rainer Maria Rilke perfect joy giving I live not in dreams but in contemplation of a reality that is perhaps the future. Rainer Maria Rilke contemplation dream reality It is part of the nature of every definitive love that sooner or later it can reach the beloved only in infinity. Rainer Maria Rilke sooner-or-later beloved infinity 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 But there is much beauty here, because there is much beauty everywhere. Rainer Maria Rilke beauty-everywhere What is needed is, in the end, simply this: solitude, great inner solitude. Rainer Maria Rilke solitude needed ends
