Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes

• The only journey is the one within.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

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

  Rainer Maria Rilke

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  Tags in Transform, Happens, Order

• The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Topics in Experience

  Tags in Creator, Receiving

• 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

• 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

• One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Topics in Fear

  Tags in Action, Against, Hold

• 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.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

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

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

  Rainer Maria Rilke

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  Tags in Great, Artist, Known, Danger

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

  Rainer Maria Rilke

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  Tags in Bed, Marriage, Belong

• Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

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  Tags in Poetry

• 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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  Tags in Perhaps, Knowing, Live, Day

• 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

• It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

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  Tags in Anything, Beginning, Violence, Simply

• 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.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Poet, Creator, Seems, Enough, Poor, Poverty, Blame

• I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

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  Tags in Poetry

• I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Topics in Friendship

  Tags in People, Solitude, Highest, Protect, Hold

• 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.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

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  Tags in Aware, Several, Person, Human

• 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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  Tags in Think, Humble, Interest, Mirror, Matter

• 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

  Topics in Love, Work

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

• 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

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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