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 RILKEIf 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 RILKEThe purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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 RILKEThere may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
RAINER MARIA RILKEAnd now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
RAINER MARIA RILKENo great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
RAINER MARIA RILKEFor one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks.
RAINER MARIA RILKEThe ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
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 RILKELet life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
RAINER MARIA RILKEWho has not sat before his own heart’s curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
RAINER MARIA RILKEBelieve that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.
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 RILKEPerhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
RAINER MARIA RILKELove is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
RAINER MARIA RILKEThis is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.
RAINER MARIA RILKE