Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
Generally considered the German language's greatest poet of the 20th century.
(1875 - 1926)
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A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude. Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole and against a wide sky.
[Marriage]
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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.
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A work of art is good if it has grown out of necessity.
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All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.
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All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
[Begin]
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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 now 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 then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.
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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.
[Self Confidence]
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Death is the dies of life which is turned away from us.
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Do continue to believe that with your feeling and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate in yourself this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
[Greatness]
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Everyone once, once only. Just once and no more. And we also once. Never again.
[One Day]
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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.
[Nature]
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Everywhere I am folded, there I am a lie.
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Fame is the sum of the misunderstanding that gathers about a new name.
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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.
[Life]
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He [Cézanne] 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.
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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.
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He was a poet and hated the approximate.
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I could give you no advice but this: to go into yourself and to explore the depths where your life wells forth.
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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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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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