Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes

• If we surrendered to earth’s intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Topics in Intelligence

  Tags in Surrendered, Earth

• The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Images

• Who shows a child as he really is? Who sets him in his constellation and puts the measuring-rod of distance in his hand?

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Topics in Uncategorized

• No, we don’t accomplish our love in a single year as the flowers do; an immemorial sap flows up through our arms when we love.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Topics in Uncategorized

• And being dead is hard work and full of retrieval before one can gradually feel a trace of eternity.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Topics in Uncategorized

• I prayed to rediscover my childhood, and it has come back, and I feel that it is just as difficult as it used to be, and that growing older has served no purpose at all.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Topics in Uncategorized

• Ah, poems amount to so little when you write them too early in your life. You ought to wait and gather sense and sweetness for a whole lifetime, and a long one if possible, and then, at the very end, you might perhaps be able to write ten good lines.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Topics in Uncategorized

• Why don’t you think of [God] as the one who is coming, who has been approaching from all eternity… the ultimate fruit of a tree whose leaves we are.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Topics in God

• Not numbering and counting, but ripening like a tree.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Poetry

• I live not in dreams but in contemplation of a reality that is perhaps the future.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Topics in Dream

  Tags in Poetry

• Every angel is terrifying.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Poetry

• Let everything happen to you. Beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Topics in Beauty

  Tags in Happen, Feeling

• I live my life in widening circles. That reach out across the world.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Topics in God, Inspirational, Life

  Tags in Reach, Widening

• Who has not sat before his own heart’s curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Own, Heart, Apart

• Truly to sing, that is a different breath.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Different, Sing

• This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Possess, Happens, Time, Really, Miracle

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

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Good, Pleasant, Marriage

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Things, Man, Little, Matter

• There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Always, Right, Most, Difficult, Class

• The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Poetry

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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