Letters to a Young Poet Quotes

“only someone who is ready for everything, who doesn’t exclude any experience, even the most incomprehensible, will live the relationship with another person as something alive and will himself sound the depths of his own being.”

― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

topic:experiencerelationship

“We know little, but that we must trust in what is difficult is a certainty that will never abandon us; it is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be one more reason for us to do it.”

― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

topic:trustdifficulty

“A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity.”

― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

topic:art

“Being an artist means: not numbering and counting, but ripening like a tree, which doesn't force its sap, and stands confidently in the storms of spring, not afraid that afterward summer may not come. It does come.”

― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

topic:art

“The only sadnesses that are dangerous and unhealthy are the ones that we carry around in public in order to drown them out with the noise”

― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

topic:sadness

“And your doubt can become a good quality if you train it. It must become knowing, it must become criticism.”

― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

topic:doubt

“in every sickness there are many days when the doctor can do nothing but wait.”

― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

topic:waitingpatience

“Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without...”

― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

topic:patience

“your solitude will be a support and a home for you, even in the midst of very unfamiliar circumstances, and from it you will find all your paths.”

― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

topic:home

“Sex is difficult; yes. But those tasks that have been entrusted to us are difficult; almost everything serious is difficult; and everything is serious. ”

― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

topic:difficulty