Girls, there are poets who learn from you to say, what you, in your aloneness, are; and they learn through you to live distantness, as the evenings through the great stars become accustomed to eternity. Rainer Maria Rilke More Quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke More Quotes From Rainer Maria Rilke I am too alone in the world and not alone enough to make every moment holy. Rainer Maria Rilke momentsenoughworld If there is nothing you can share with other people, try to be close to Things, they will not abandon you; and the nights are still here and the winds that move through the trees and across many lands; everything in the world of Things and animals is still filled with happening, which you can take part in. Rainer Maria Rilke animalnightmoving Our being is continually undergoing and entering upon changes. ... We must, strictly speaking, at every moment give each other up and let each other go and not hold each other back. Rainer Maria Rilke enteringchangegiving Is not impermanence the very fragrance of our days? Rainer Maria Rilke impermanencefragrance Be patient with all that is unsolved in your life. Learn to love the questions themselves, until some distant day, without your knowing, you will have lived into the answers. Rainer Maria Rilke patientknowinganswers He who does not at some time, with definite determination consent to the terribleness of life, or even exalt in it, never takes possession of the inexpressible fullness of the power of our existence. Rainer Maria Rilke determinationdoelife Look, I am living. On what? Neither childhood nor future lessens . . . . Superabundant existence wells in my heart. Rainer Maria Rilke childhoodheartlooks 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 forgottenhandsfall Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything. Rainer Maria Rilke egosolitudepatience A merging of two people is an impossibility, and where it seems to exist, it is a hemming-in, a mutual consent that robs one party or both parties of their fullest freedom and development. Rainer Maria Rilke partytwopeople There is time only to work slowly There is no time not to love Rainer Maria Rilke The future must enter you long before it happens. Rainer Maria Rilke happenslong The deep parts of my life pour onward, as if the river shores were opening out. I feel closer to what language can't reach. With my senses, as with birds, I climb into the windy heaven... in the ponds broken off from the sky. . . Rainer Maria Rilke brokenskyrivers People have (with the help of conventions) oriented all their solutions toward the easy and toward the easiest side of the easy; but it is clear that we must hold to what is difficult; everything alive holds to it, everything in Nature grows and defends itself in its own way and is characteristically and spontaneously itself, seeks at all costs to be so and against all opposition. Rainer Maria Rilke costalivepeople My eyes already touch the sunny hill. Going far ahead of the road I have begun. So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp; it has inner light, even from a distance- and charges us, even if we do not reach it, into something else, which, hardly sensing it, we already are; a gesture waves us on answering our own wave... but what we feel is the wind in our faces. Rainer Maria Rilke distancelighteye Those doves below, the ones utterly cared for, never endangered ones, cannot know tenderness. Rainer Maria Rilke tendernessdoveknows I love the dark hours of my being. My mind deepens into them. There I can find, as in old letters, the days of my life, already lived, and held like a legend, and understood. Rainer Maria Rilke minddarkletters 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. Rainer Maria Rilke simplefeelingsheart We must accept our reality as vastly as we possibly can; everything, even the unprecedented, must be possible within it. Rainer Maria Rilke unprecedentedacceptingreality Love is something difficult and it is more difficult than other things because in other conflicts nature herself enjoins men to collect themselves, to take themselves firmly in the hand with all their strength, while in the heightening of love the impulse is to give oneself wholly away. Rainer Maria Rilke love-ismenhands
