The ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
RAINER MARIA RILKEFor one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks.
More Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
-
-
Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
RAINER MARIA RILKE -
Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
RAINER MARIA RILKE -
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 RILKE -
Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
RAINER MARIA RILKE -
He 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 -
This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.
RAINER MARIA RILKE -
The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
RAINER MARIA RILKE -
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.
RAINER MARIA RILKE -
Surely 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 RILKE -
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.
RAINER MARIA RILKE -
And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
RAINER MARIA RILKE -
It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
RAINER MARIA RILKE -
I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
RAINER MARIA RILKE -
Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
RAINER MARIA RILKE -
Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
RAINER MARIA RILKE