The ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
RAINER MARIA RILKEThe deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
More Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.
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There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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A person isn’t who they are during the last conversation you had with them – they’re who they’ve been throughout your whole relationship.
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Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.
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There 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.
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All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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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.
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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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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.
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And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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The more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
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More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
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I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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The only journey is the one within.
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It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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A 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.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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