More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
RAINER MARIA RILKEMore belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
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 RILKEThis is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.
RAINER MARIA RILKEThe only journey is the one within.
RAINER MARIA RILKEAnd now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
RAINER MARIA RILKEIt is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
RAINER MARIA RILKEI am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
RAINER MARIA RILKEOne had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
RAINER MARIA RILKEThe purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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 RILKEThe ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
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 RILKEPerhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
RAINER MARIA RILKEThe more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
RAINER MARIA RILKELove is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
RAINER MARIA RILKENo great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
RAINER MARIA RILKE