There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
RAINER MARIA RILKEThere are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
RAINER MARIA RILKETruly to sing, that is a different breath.
RAINER MARIA RILKEEverything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.
RAINER MARIA RILKENo great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
RAINER MARIA RILKEThe future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
RAINER MARIA RILKEHe 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.
RAINER MARIA RILKEOne had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
RAINER MARIA RILKEThe deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
RAINER MARIA RILKEThe only journey is the one within.
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 RILKEAll the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
RAINER MARIA RILKELove consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
RAINER MARIA RILKEThe purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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 RILKELet life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
RAINER MARIA RILKEFor one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks.
RAINER MARIA RILKE