I don't want to stay folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie. Rainer Maria Rilke More Quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke More Quotes From Rainer Maria Rilke Strangely, I heard a stranger say, I am with you. Rainer Maria Rilke strangerheard The leaves are falling, falling as if from far up,as if orchards were dying high in space.Each leaf falls as if it were motioning "no."And tonight the heavy earth is fallingaway from all other stars in the loneliness.We're all falling. This hand here is falling.And look at the other one. It's in them all.And yet there is Someone, whose handsinfinitely calm, holding up all this falling. Rainer Maria Rilke starslonelinessfall If you will cling to Nature, to the simple in Nature, to the little things that hardly anyone sees, and that can so unexpectedly become big and beyond measuring; if you have this love of inconsiderable things and seek quite simply, as one who serves, to win the confidence of what seems poor: then everything will become easier, more coherent and somehow more conciliatory for you, not in your intellect, perhaps, which lags marveling behind, but in your inmost consciousness, waking and cognizance. Rainer Maria Rilke naturesimplewinning Success, which is something so simple in the end, is made up of thousands of things, we never fully know what. Rainer Maria Rilke endssimplesuccess May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children. Rainer Maria Rilke natureintegritychildren What we fight with is so small, and when we win, it makes us small. What we want is to be defeated, decisively, by successively greater things Rainer Maria Rilke fightingwinningwant At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and again it is the best thing in life that each should have everything in himself; his fate, his future, his whole expanse and world. Rainer Maria Rilke fateshould-havelife Be, in this immensity of night, the magic force at your sense's crossroad. Rainer Maria Rilke magicforcenight You, darkness, of whom I am born- I love you more than the flame that limits the world to the circle it illumines and excludes the rest. Rainer Maria Rilke i-love-you-moreflamescircles Works of art always spring from those who have faced the danger, gone to the very end of an experience, to the point beyond which no human being can go. The further one dares to go, the more decent, the more personal, the more unique a life becomes. Rainer Maria Rilke uniquespringart I would like to sing someone to sleep, to sit beside someone and be there. I would like to rock you and sing softly and go with you to and from sleep. I would like to be the one in the house who knew: The night was cold. And I would like to listen in and listen out into you, into the world, into the woods. The clocks shout to one another striking, and one sees to the bottom of time. And down below one last, strange man walks by and rouses a strange dog. And after that comes silence. I have laid my eyes upon you wide; and they hold you gently and let you go when something stirs in the dark. Rainer Maria Rilke eyedogsleep Here is the time for the sayable, here is its home. Speak and attest. More than ever the things we can live with are falling away, and ousting them, filling their place, a will with no image. Will beneath crusts which readily crack whenever the act inside swells and seeks new borders. Rainer Maria Rilke bordershomefall And you should not let yourself be confused in your solitude by the fact that there is something in you that wants to move out of it. Rainer Maria Rilke confusedsolitudemoving We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen. Rainer Maria Rilke empowermentcourageinspirational 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 eveninggirlstars Since I've learned to be silent, everything has come so much closer to me. Rainer Maria Rilke ive-learnedlearningsilence If you trust in Nature, in the small Things that hardly anyone sees and that can so suddenly become huge, immeasurable; if you have this love for what is humble and try very simply, as someone who serves, to win the confidence of what seems poor, then everything will become easier for you. Rainer Maria Rilke humblewinningtrying As the arrow endures the string, and in the gathering momentum becomes more than itself. Because to stay is to be nowhere. Rainer Maria Rilke momentumarrowsgathering To be in circumstances that are working upon us, that from time to time place us in front of great natural Things - that is all we need. Rainer Maria Rilke circumstancesnaturalneeds Isn't it time that these most ancient sorrows of ours grew fruitful? Time that we tenderly loosed ourselves from the loved one, and, unsteadily, survived: the way the arrow, suddenly all vector, survives the string to be more than itself. For abiding is nowhere. Rainer Maria Rilke abidingarrowssorrow
