Quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke
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.
Rilke, Rainer Maria
Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart; confess to yourself you would have to die if you were forbidden to write.
Rilke, Rainer Maria
Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
Rilke, Rainer Maria
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.
Rilke, Rainer Maria
There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
Rilke, Rainer Maria
If my devils are to leave me, I am afraid my angels will take flight as well.
Rilke, Rainer Maria
Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
Rilke, Rainer Maria
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
Rilke, Rainer Maria
I have never been aware before how many faces there are. There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
Rilke, Rainer Maria
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will find them gradually, without noticing it, and live along some distant day into the answer.
Rilke, Rainer Maria
A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude.
Rilke, Rainer Maria
Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.
Rilke, Rainer Maria
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.
Rilke, Rainer Maria
Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.
Rilke, Rainer Maria
Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
Rilke, Rainer Maria
More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
Rilke, Rainer Maria