The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
RAINER MARIA RILKETruly to sing, that is a different breath.
More Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
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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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The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
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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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The ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
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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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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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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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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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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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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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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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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
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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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