Quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God

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I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world. — Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
You, God, who live next door--If at times, through the long night, I trouble youwith my urgent knocking--this is why: I — Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
I live my life in widening circleThat reach out across the world. I may not ever complete the last one,But I give myself — Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
I am too alone in the world, and yet not alone enoughto make every moment holy.I am too tiny in this world, and not tiny — Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
If we surrenderedto earth's intelligencewe could rise up rooted, like trees. — Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
If we surrenderedto earth’s intelligencewe could rise up rooted, like trees.Instead we entangle ourselvesin knots of our — Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
I want my own will, and I wantsimply to be with my will,as it goes toward action.And in the silent, sometimes hardly mov — Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
How surely gravity's law,strong as an ocean current,takes hold of the smallest thingand pulls it toward the heart of the — Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
I want to unfold.I don’t want to be folded anywhere,because where I am folded,there I am a lie. — Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
You, yesterday’s boy,to whom confusion came:Listen, lest you forget who you are.It was not pleasure you fell into. It wa — Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
I love the dark hours of my being.My mind deepens into them.There I can find, as in old letters,the days of my life, alr — Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
I am much too alone in this world, yet not alone enough. — Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
I live my life in growing orbits which move out over this wondrous world, I am circling around God, around ancient tower — Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God