Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
RAINER MARIA RILKEI hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
More Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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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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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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A 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.
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I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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The more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
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All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
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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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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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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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