I am so glad you are here. It helps me realize how beautiful my world is. Rainer Maria Rilke More Quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke More Quotes From 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 nature heart spring If, when you wake up in the morning, you can think of nothing but writing . . . then you are a writer. Rainer Maria Rilke writing morning thinking It is possible I am pushing through solid rock, like the vein of ore encased, alone. I am such a long way in I can see no way through and no space. Everything is close to my face and everything close to my face is stone. I don't have much knowledge yet in grief, so this darkness makes me feel small. You, be the Master; Make yourself fierce; break in. And then your great transforming will happen to me And my great grief cry will happen to you. Rainer Maria Rilke rocks grief struggle Just keep going - no feeling is final. Rainer Maria Rilke flare-up enjoy-life determination You see, I want a lot. Perhaps I want everything the darkness that comes with every infinite fall and the shivering blaze of every step up. So many live on and want nothing And are raised to the rank of prince By the slippery ease of their light judgments But what you love to see are faces that do work and feel thirst. You love most of all those who need you as they need a crowbar or a hoe. You have not grown old, and it is not too late To dive into your increasing depths where life calmly gives out its own secret. Rainer Maria Rilke hoe light fall Do continue to believe that with your feeling and with your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate in yourself this belief, the more will reality and world go forth from it. Rainer Maria Rilke confidence believe reality At no other time (than autumn) does the earth let itself be inhaled in one smell, the ripe earth; in a smell that is in no way inferior to the smell of the sea, bitter where it borders on taste, and more honeysweet where you feel it touching the first sounds. Containing depth within itself, darkness, something of the grave almost. Rainer Maria Rilke autumn smell sea I could give you no advice but this: to go into yourself and to explore the depths where your life wells forth. Rainer Maria Rilke spiritual advice giving Everything terrible is something that needs our love. Rainer Maria Rilke our-love terrible needs Perhaps then, some day far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer. Rainer Maria Rilke mindfulness depression patience Lord, it is time. The summer was very big. Lay thy shadow on the sundials, and on the meadows let the winds go loose. Command the last fruits that they shall be full; give them another two more southerly days, press them on to fulfillment and drive the last sweetiness into the heavenly wine. Rainer Maria Rilke wine summer wind Every angel is terrifying. Rainer Maria Rilke elegy angel God... sat down for a moment when the dog was finished in order to watch it... and to know that it was good, that nothing was lacking, that it could not have been made better. Rainer Maria Rilke dog watches order Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves...At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer. Rainer Maria Rilke finding-yourself heart trying Extinguish my eyes, I'll go on seeing you. Seal my ears, I'll go on hearing you. And without feet I can make my way to you, without a mouth I can swear your name. Break off my arms, I'll take hold of you with my heart as with a hand. Stop my heart, and my brain will start to beat. And if you consume my brain with fire, I'll feel you burn in every drop of my blood. Rainer Maria Rilke eye fire heart Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack. Rainer Maria Rilke measles love-you love And still it is not enough to have memories. One must be able to forget them when they are many, and one must have the great patience to wait until they come again. For it is not yet the memories themselves. Not until they have turned to blood within us, to glance, to gesture, nameless and no longer to be distinguished from ourselves - not until then can it happen that in a most rare hour the first word of a verse arises in their midst and goes forth from them. Rainer Maria Rilke waiting memories blood If only we arrange our life according to that principle which counsels us that we must hold to the difficult, then that which now still seems to us the most alien will become what we most trust and find most faithful. Rainer Maria Rilke faithful aliens principles Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart; confess to yourself you would have to die if you were forbidden to write. Rainer Maria Rilke roots heart writing Strangely, I heard a stranger say, I am with you. Rainer Maria Rilke stranger heard
