If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.
RAINER MARIA RILKEIf your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.
RAINER MARIA RILKETruly to sing, that is a different breath.
RAINER MARIA RILKESpring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
RAINER MARIA RILKEA wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
RAINER MARIA RILKEMore belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
RAINER MARIA RILKELive your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
RAINER MARIA RILKEThe more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
RAINER MARIA RILKEThere are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.
RAINER MARIA RILKEThere may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
RAINER MARIA RILKEFor one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks.
RAINER MARIA RILKEIt is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
RAINER MARIA RILKEOne had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
RAINER MARIA RILKEAll 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 RILKEThere are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
RAINER MARIA RILKEThe purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
RAINER MARIA RILKEThere are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.
RAINER MARIA RILKE