Quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

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Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and coura — Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
Therefore, dear Sir, love your solitude and try to sing out with the pain it causes you. For those who are near you are — Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a stren — Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of a — Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth — Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked roo — Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
How should we be able to forget those ancient myths that are at the beginning of all peoples, the myths about dragons th — Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
In the deepest hour of the night, confess to yourself that you would die if you were forbidden to write. And look deep i — Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if t — Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
Why don't you think of [God] as the one who is coming, who has been approaching from all eternity... the ultimate fruit — Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
Why should you want to give up a child's wise not-understanding in exchange for defensiveness and scorn, since not-under — Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
So don't be frightened, dear friend, if a sadness confronts you larger than any you have ever known, casting its shadow — Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
It is not inertia alone that is responsible for human relationships repeating themselves from case to case, indescribabl — Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
There is only one way: Go within. Search for the cause, find the impetus that bids you write. Put it to this test: Does — Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
only someone who is ready for everything, who doesn't exclude any experience, even the most incomprehensible, will live — Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each should stand guard over the solitude of the o — Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in its — Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
Girls and women, in their new, particular unfolding, will only in passing imitate men's behavior and misbehavior and fol — Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
Why do you want to shut out of your life any uneasiness, any misery, any depression, since after all you don't know what — Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
Don't be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you; simply let it happen. Otherwise it will be too easy for — Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet