You must give birth to your images. They are the future waiting to be born. Rainer Maria Rilke More Quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke More Quotes From Rainer Maria Rilke There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult. Rainer Maria Rilke success inspirational life Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart. Rainer Maria Rilke falling-apart falling-in-love heart As people used to be wrong about the motion of the sun, so they are still wrong about the motion of the future. The future stands still, it is we who move in infinite space. Rainer Maria Rilke future space moving So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp. Rainer Maria Rilke May you find in yourself enough patience to endure and enough simplicity to have faith. Rainer Maria Rilke simplicity faith may All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood. Rainer Maria Rilke of-my-mind mind blood The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing. Rainer Maria Rilke receiving women creativity Death is the side of life which is turned away from us. Rainer Maria Rilke sides death No, no, one can imagine nothing in the world, not the least thing. Everything is composed of so many isolated details that are not to be foreseen. In one's imagining one passes over them and hasty as one is doesn't notice that they are missing. But realities are slow and indescribably detailed. Rainer Maria Rilke details missing reality Bound by conventions, people tend to reach for what is easy. Here we must be unafraid of what is difficult. For all living beings in nature must unfold in their particular way and become themselves despite all opposition. Rainer Maria Rilke easy people way Think... of the world you carry within you. Rainer Maria Rilke healing world thinking All things want to float. Rainer Maria Rilke floats all-things want As bees gather honey, so we collect what is sweetest out of all things and build. Rainer Maria Rilke construction bees honey I want to love the things as no one has thought to love them. Rainer Maria Rilke want Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us. Rainer Maria Rilke not-giving-up encouraging encouragement Go into yourself and test the deeps in which your life takes rise; at its source you will find the answer to the question whether you must create. Accept it, just as it sounds, without inquiring into it. Perhaps it will turn out that you are called to be an artist. Then take that destiny upon yourself and bear it, its burden and its greatness, without ever asking what reward might come from outside Rainer Maria Rilke destiny greatness artist Look, we don't love like flowers with only one season behind us; when we love, a sap older than memory rises in our arms. Rainer Maria Rilke flower memories looks For poems are not, as people think, simply emotions (one has emotions early enough)-they are experiences. Rainer Maria Rilke emotion people thinking Do not allow yourself to be misled by the surfaces of things Rainer Maria Rilke misled surface Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force its sap and stands confidence in the storms of spring without fear that after them may come no summer Rainer Maria Rilke summer spring mean
