Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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.
More Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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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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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.
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I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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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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There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
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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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All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
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The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
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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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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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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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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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Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
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