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 RILKEThere are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.
More Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
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More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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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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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
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All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.
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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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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks.
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All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
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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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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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The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.
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