The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
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.
More Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
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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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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
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And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
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It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
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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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Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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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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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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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 quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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