The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
RAINER MARIA RILKEThe purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
RAINER MARIA RILKETruly to sing, that is a different breath.
RAINER MARIA RILKEThe deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
RAINER MARIA RILKEAll the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
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 RILKEIt is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
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 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 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 RILKEThere 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.
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 RILKELive your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
RAINER MARIA RILKEAnd now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
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 RILKELove is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
RAINER MARIA RILKE