The ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
RAINER MARIA RILKEThe ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
RAINER MARIA RILKEEverything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.
RAINER MARIA RILKEI want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
RAINER MARIA RILKENo great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
RAINER MARIA RILKESpring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
RAINER MARIA RILKEOnce the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
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 RILKEThe future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
RAINER MARIA RILKELove consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
RAINER MARIA RILKEThe more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
RAINER MARIA RILKEBelieve that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.
RAINER MARIA RILKEThe only journey is the one within.
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 RILKEIt is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
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 RILKEOne had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
RAINER MARIA RILKE