The highest form of love is to be the protector of another person’s solitude. Rainer Maria Rilke More Quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke More Quotes From Rainer Maria Rilke Fig tree, how long it's been full meaning for me, the way you almost entirely omit to flower and into the seasonably-resolute fruit uncelebratedly thrust your purest secret. Like the tube of a fountain, your bent bough drives the sap downwards and up: and it leaps from its sleep, scarce waking, into the joy of its sweetest achievement. Rainer Maria Rilke flower sleep long A billion stars go spinning through the night, / glittering above your head, / But in you is the presence that will be / when all the stars are dead. Rainer Maria Rilke spinning stars night I have patience for centuries in me and will live as though my time were very big. Rainer Maria Rilke having-patience century bigs What we do battle with is so small, what battles us is so large. Rainer Maria Rilke battle struggle Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children’s strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms even if it doesn’t comprehend. Don’t ask for advice from them and don’t expect any understanding; but believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is strength and blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it. Rainer Maria Rilke drama believe children Our task is to listen to the news that is always arriving out of silence. Rainer Maria Rilke arriving intuition silence We are unutterably alone essentially, especially in the things most intimate and most important. Rainer Maria Rilke intimate important If only it were possible for us to see farther than our knowledge reaches, and even a little beyond the outworks of our presentiment, perhaps we would bear our sadnesses with greater trust than we have in our joys. Rainer Maria Rilke sadness littles joy Und dasTotsein ist mu« hsam und voller Nachholn, dass man allm a« hlich ein wenig Ewigkeit spu« rt. And being dead is hard work and full of retrieval before one can gradually feel a trace of eternity. Rainer Maria Rilke hard-work eternity men What happens most deeply inside you is worthy of your whole love. Rainer Maria Rilke worthy whole happens Whoever you are, go out into the evening, leaving your room, of which you know every bit; your house is the last before the infinite, whoever you are. Rainer Maria Rilke leaving lasts house In one creative thought a thousand forgotten nights of love revive, filling it with sublimity and exaltation. Rainer Maria Rilke exaltation creative night So you mustn't be frightened, dear Mr. Kappus, if a sadness rises in front of you, larger than any you have ever seen; if an anxiety - like light and cloud-shadows, moves over your hands and everything you do. You must realize that something is happening to you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in the palm of its hand and will not let you fall. Rainer Maria Rilke faith fear moving Go on loving what is good, simple, and ordinary. Rainer Maria Rilke simple ordinary love We make our way through Everything like thread passing through fabric, giving shape to images that we ourselves do not know. Rainer Maria Rilke fabric shapes giving And you suddenly know: It was here! You pull yourself together, and there stands an irrevocable year of anguish and vision and prayer. Rainer Maria Rilke vision prayer years There exists a creature which is perfectly harmless; when it passes before your eyes you scarcely notice it and forget it again immediately. But as soon as it invisibly gets somehow into your ears, it develops there, it hatches, as it were, and cases have been known where it was penetrated even into the brain and has thriven devastatingly in that organ, like those pneumococci in dogs that gain entrance through the nose.This creature is one's neighbor. Rainer Maria Rilke eye dog brain Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any complement and limit, but only life and reality: the female human being. Rainer Maria Rilke girl mean reality May you gain more and more confidence in what is difficult and in your solitude among other people. Rainer Maria Rilke confidence solitude people Fame is the sum of the misunderstanding that gathers about a new name. Rainer Maria Rilke idols names fame
