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.
RAINER MARIA RILKEMore belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
More Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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He 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.
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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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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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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
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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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I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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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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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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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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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 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 more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
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