And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
RAINER MARIA RILKEAnd now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
RAINER MARIA RILKEHe reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there’s another dog.
RAINER MARIA RILKEI am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
RAINER MARIA RILKEThe more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
RAINER MARIA RILKEI want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
RAINER MARIA RILKEIt is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
RAINER MARIA RILKEAll the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
RAINER MARIA RILKEWho has not sat before his own heart’s curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
RAINER MARIA RILKEPerhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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 RILKEFor one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks.
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 RILKELet life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
RAINER MARIA RILKENo great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
RAINER MARIA RILKEThis is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.
RAINER MARIA RILKEMore belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
RAINER MARIA RILKE