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 RILKEMore belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
RAINER MARIA RILKEAll the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
RAINER MARIA RILKELive your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
RAINER MARIA RILKEPerhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
RAINER MARIA RILKEA person isn’t who they are during the last conversation you had with them – they’re who they’ve been throughout your whole relationship.
RAINER MARIA RILKEWho has not sat before his own heart’s curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
RAINER MARIA RILKETruly to sing, that is a different breath.
RAINER MARIA RILKEThe ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
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 RILKELet life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
RAINER MARIA RILKESurely all art is the result of one’s having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.
RAINER MARIA RILKEThe only journey is the one within.
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 may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
RAINER MARIA RILKEHe reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there’s another dog.
RAINER MARIA RILKE