Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes

• More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

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• Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

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• No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.

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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.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

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  Tags in Result, Danger

• 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.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

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  Tags in Solitude, Good, Reason, Something, 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.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

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  Tags in Proof, Preparation, Ultimate, Perhaps, Human, Difficult

• 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.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

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• There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

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  Tags in Things, Man, Little, Matter

• All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

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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.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

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  Tags in Possess, Happens, Time, Really, Miracle

• A person isn’t who they are during the last conversation you had with them – they’re who they’ve been throughout your whole relationship.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

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  Tags in Relationship, Whole, Person, Conversation

• The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

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• A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

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• There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

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• Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

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  Tags in World, Greatest, Feelings, Believe, Reality

• The only journey is the one within.

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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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• Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.

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  Tags in Wonderful, Against, Between, Possible, Realization, Infinite, Human

• Everything 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 Rilke

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  Tags in Heart, Everything, Most, Instead

• Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

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  Tags in Poems, Earth, Like, Spring

Rainer Maria Rilke (46)

Birth:	4th December, 1875
Death:	29th December, 1926
Nationality:	Austrian
Profession:	Novelist, Poet

About

René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke better known as Rainer Maria Rilke was a Bohemian-Austrian poet. He is considered one of the most significant poets in the German language. His haunting images focus on the difficulty of communion with the ineffable in an
age of disbelief, solitude, and profound anxiety: themes that tend to position him as a transitional figure between the traditional and the modernist poets.

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