Everything 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 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 RILKEOnce the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
RAINER MARIA RILKEThe future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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 RILKEMore belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
RAINER MARIA RILKEThe deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
RAINER MARIA RILKEThere are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.
RAINER MARIA RILKEThe ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
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 RILKEThere may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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 RILKEI hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
RAINER MARIA RILKETruly to sing, that is a different breath.
RAINER MARIA RILKEThe only journey is the one within.
RAINER MARIA RILKELet life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
RAINER MARIA RILKEIt is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
RAINER MARIA RILKE