Who has not sat before his own heart’s curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
RAINER MARIA RILKEWho has not sat before his own heart’s curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
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 RILKELove is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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 RILKEOnce the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
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 RILKEThere may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
RAINER MARIA RILKEAll 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.
RAINER MARIA RILKEI want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
RAINER MARIA RILKESurely 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.
RAINER MARIA RILKEThe deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
RAINER MARIA RILKETruly to sing, that is a different breath.
RAINER MARIA RILKENo great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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 RILKEIt is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
RAINER MARIA RILKEPerhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
RAINER MARIA RILKE