Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
RAINER MARIA RILKEWho has not sat before his own heart’s curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
More Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
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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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All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
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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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Who has not sat before his own heart’s curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks.
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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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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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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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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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There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.
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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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