When we are only victorious over small things, it leaves us feeling small. Rainer Maria Rilke More Quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke More Quotes From Rainer Maria Rilke All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you. Rainer Maria Rilke lift-you-upemotionalsides Interior of the hand. Sole that has come to walk only on feelings. That faces upward and in its mirror receives heavenly roads, which travel along themselves. That has learned to walk upon water when it scoops, that walks upon wells, transfiguring every path. That steps into other hands, changes those that are like it into a landscape: wanders and arrives within them, fills them with arrival. Rainer Maria Rilke mirrorswaterhands Across the moment, aeons speak with aeons. More than we experienced has gone by. Rainer Maria Rilke momentsspeakgone I believe that nothing that is real can pass away. Rainer Maria Rilke realpassing-awaybelieve For bel.i.eve me, the more one is, the richer is all one experiences. And whoever wants to have deep love in his life must collect and save for it and gather honey. Rainer Maria Rilke greatest-lovedeep-loveinspirational Look, lovers: almost separately they come towards us through the flowery grass and slowly; parting's so far from thought of, they indulge the extravagance of walking unembraced. Rainer Maria Rilke extravaganceloverslooks And even if you were in some prison, the walls of which let none of the sounds of the world come to your senses - would you not then still have your childhood, that precious, kingly possession, that treasure-house of memories? Rainer Maria Rilke wallhousememories Earth, is not this what you will: in us to rise up invisible? Is it, O Earth, not your dream once to be wholly invisible? Earth! Invisible! What, if not change, is your desperate mission? Rainer Maria Rilke what-ifearthdream The artist's experience lies so unbelievably close to the sexual, to its pain and its pleasure, that the two phenomena are really just different forms of one and the same longing and bliss. Rainer Maria Rilke painlyingsex Sex is difficult, yes. But they are difficult things with which we have been charged...If you only recognize this and manage out of yourself, out of your own nature and ways, out of your own experience and childhood and strength to achieve a relation to sex wholly your own (not influenced by convention and custom) then you need no longer be afraid of losing yourself and becoming unworthy of your best possession. Rainer Maria Rilke childhoodsexneeds If my devils are to leave me, I'm afraid my angels will take flight as well. Rainer Maria Rilke flightdevilangel Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle. Rainer Maria Rilke citiesairnames To work is to live without dying. Rainer Maria Rilke dyingwork Why don't you conceive of God as an ally who is coming, who has been approaching since time began, the one who will someday arrive, the fruit of a tree whose leaves we are? Why not project his birth into the future, and live your life as an excruciating and lyrical moment in the history of a prodigious pregnancy? Rainer Maria Rilke live-your-lifetreepregnancy Never has grief been possessed, never has love been learned, and what removes us in death is not revealed. Rainer Maria Rilke removegrieflove-is We must assume our existence as broadly as we in any way can; everything, even the unheard - of, must be possible in it. This is at bottom the only courage that is demanded of us: to have courage for the most strange, the most inexplicable. Rainer Maria Rilke strangelifeway And one of the things I find most moving is the way people with infirmities manage to embrace Life, and from the cool flowers by the wayside reach conclusions about the vast splendour of its great gardens. They can, if their souls' strings are finely tuned, arrive with much less effort at the feeling of eternity; for everything we do, they may dream. And precisely where our deeds end, theirs begin to bear fruit. Rainer Maria Rilke flowerdreammoving It is good to say it aloud: 'Nothing has happened.' Once again: 'Nothing has happened.' Does that help?" Rainer Maria Rilke happeneddoehelping Stand up during supper and walk outdoors, and keep on walking. Rainer Maria Rilke supperwalkswalking I never read anything concerning my work. I feel that criticism is a letter to the public which the author, since it is not directed to him, does not have to open and read. Rainer Maria Rilke criticismdoeletters
