Rainer Maria Rilke (December 04, 1875 – December 29, 1926) For the things whose essential life you want to express, begin by asking, "Are you free? Are you prepared to devote all your love to me? And if the thing sees that you are preoccupied, with even a mere particle of your interest, it shuts …
Rainer Maria Rilke On Questions
Rainer Maria Rilke (December 04, 1875 – December 29, 1926) ...have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not look now for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not …
Rainer Maria Rilke On Transformation And Love
Rainer Maria Rilke (December 04, 1875 – December 29, 1926) Self-transformation is precisely what life is, and human relationships, which are an extract of life, are the most changeable of all, rising and falling from minute to minute, and lovers are those in whose relationship and contact no one moment resembles another.
Rainer Maria Rilke On Relationships And Solitude
Rainer Maria Rilke (December 04, 1875 – December 29, 1926) I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each should stand guard over the solitude of the other. For, if it lies in the nature of indifference and of the crowd to recognize no solitude, then love and …
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Rainer Maria Rilke On Encounters
Rainer Maria Rilke (December 04, 1875 – December 29, 1926) Sometimes to someone lonely there comes something that works as a wondrous balm. It is not a sound, not even a voice. It is the smile of women - a smile, that, like the light of perished stars, is still on its way.
Rainer Maria Rilke On Changing The World
Rainer Maria Rilke (December 04, 1875 – December 29, 1926) Again and again in history some people wake up. They have no ground in the crowd and they move to broader, deeper laws. They carry strange customs with them and demand room for bold and audacious action. The future speaks ruthlessly through them. They change …
Rainer Maria Rilke On Transformation
Rainer Maria Rilke (December 04, 1875 – December 29, 1926) Self-transformation is precisely what life is, and human relationships, which are an extract of life, are the most changeable of all, rising and falling from minute to minute, and lovers are those in whose relationship and contact no one moment resembles another.
Rainer Maria Rilke On Death
Rainer Maria Rilke (December 04, 1875 – December 29, 1926) Death is our friend precisely because it brings us into absolute and passionate presence with all that is here, that is natural, that is love.
Rainer Maria Rilke On God
Rainer Maria Rilke (December 04, 1875 – December 29, 1926) You are the deep innerness of all things. The last word that can never be spoken. To each of us you reveal yourself differently: to the ship as a coastline, to the shore as a ship.
Rainer Maria Rilke on Love
Rainer Maria Rilke (December 4, 1875–December 29, 1926) I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each should stand guard over the solitude of the other. For, if it lies in the nature of indifference and of the crowd to recognize no solitude, then love and friendship are …
Rainer Maria Rilke On Death
Rainer Maria Rilke (December 04, 1875 – December 29, 1926) The great secret of death, and perhaps its deepest connection with us, is this: that, in taking from us a being we have loved and venerated, death does not wound us without, at the same time, lifting us toward a more perfect understanding of this …
Rainer Maria Rilke On Love
Rainer Maria Rilke (December 04, 1875 – December 29, 1926) To love is good, too: love being difficult. 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. Love is at …
Rainer Maria Rilke On Listening
Rainer Maria Rilke (December 04, 1875 – December 29, 1926) If a thing is to speak to you, you must regard it for a certain time as the only one that exists, as the one and only phenomenon, which, thanks to your laborious and exclusive love, is one placed at the center of the Universe, …
