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.
RAINER MARIA RILKEThe ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
More Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
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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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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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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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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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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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Who has not sat before his own heart’s curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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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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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
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I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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