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.
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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.
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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And even if you were in some prison, the walls of which let none of the sounds of the world come to your senses - would you not then still have your childhood, that precious, kingly possession, that treasure-house of memories?
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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.
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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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If my devils are to leave me, I am afraid my angels will take flight as well.
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Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude.
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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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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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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.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
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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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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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