Who has not sat before his own heart’s curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
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.
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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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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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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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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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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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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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The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
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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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This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.
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