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 RILKEWho has not sat before his own heart’s curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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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.
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I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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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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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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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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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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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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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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The ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
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