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.
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.
More Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
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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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I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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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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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each 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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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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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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The more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
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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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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.
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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
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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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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks.
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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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