Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes

“Then, as if no one had ever tried before, try to say what you see and feel and love and lose.”

― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

topic:love feeling

“believe in a love that is being stored up for you like and inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.”

― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

topic:love strength faith

“For one human being to love another human being: that is perhaps the most difficult task that has been entrusted to us, the ultimate task, the final test and proof, the work for which all other work is merely preparation.”

― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

topic:love difficulty

“I believe that that love remains strong and intense in your memory because it was your first deep aloneness and the first inner work that you did on your life.”

― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

topic:love memory

“if a sadness rises in front of you, larger than any you have ever seen; if an anxiety, like light and cloud-shadows, moves over your hands and over everything you do. You must realize that something is happening to you, that life has not...”

― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

topic:life sadness

“If your everyday life seems poor, don’t blame it; blame yourself; admit to yourself that you are not enough of a poet to call forth its riches; because for the creator there is not poverty and no poor, indifferent place.”

― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

topic:life poverty poetry

“Women, in whom life lingers and dwells more immediately, more fruitfully, and more confidently, must surely have become riper and more human in their depths than light, easygoing man, who is not pulled down beneath the surface of life by the...”

― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

topic:women

“sickness is the means by which an organism frees itself from what is alien”

― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

topic:freedom

“Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depths of your heart; confess to yourself whether you would have to die if you were forbidden to write.”

― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

topic:heart reason writing

“How could we forget those ancient myths that stand at the beginning of all races, the myths about dragons that at the last moment are transformed into princesses? Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us...”

― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

topic:beauty courage

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