Quotes about Rilke

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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful liv — Rainer Maria Rilke
She who reconciles the ill-matched threadsOf her life, and weaves them gratefullyInto a single cloth – It’s she who driv — Rainer Maria Rilke
Rainer Maria Rilke greeted and wrestled with the angels of his Duino Elegies in the solitude of a castle surrounded by w — Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams
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
Be ahead of all parting, as though it already were behind you, like the winter that has just gone by. For among these wi — Rainer Maria Rilke
I live my life in growing orbits which move out over the things of the world. — Rainer Maria Rilke
How they are all about, these gentlemenIn chamberlains' apparel, stocked and laced,Like night around their order's star — Rainer Maria Rilke, The Best of Rilke: 72 Form-true Verse Translations with Facing Originals, Commentary and Compact Biography
If your love for […] wants to do something now, then its work and task is this: to catch up with what it has missed. For — Rainer Maria Rilke
…[S]uddenly your eye, which was already preparing itself for larger dimensions, goes about willingly with little, hesita — Rainer Maria Rilke
And you, Clara Westhoff, how simply and well you endured, lived through the experience, and made it a forward step in yo — Rainer Maria Rilke,
Rilke wrote: 'These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as th — Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space
Loving isn't merging, surrendering, uniting with the other. Rather, it's a kind of solitude; of profound aloneness. It i — Rainer Maria Rilke
And those, who come together in the night and are twined in quivering pleasure, are performing a serious work and are he — Rainer Maria Rilke
Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your — Rainer Maria Rilke
Destiny itself is like a wonderful wide tapestry in which every thread is guided by an unspeakable tender hand, placed b — Rainer Maria Rilke
The aesthetic construct, and nothing else, has taught us to expose ourselves to a non-enslaving experience of rank diffe — Peter Sloterdijk, Du mußt dein Leben ändern
Things are not as easily understood nor as expressible as people usually would like us to believe. Most happenings are b — they exist where a word has never intruded.
As Borges has taught us, all the books in the library are contemporary. Great poems are like granaries: they are always — William H. Gass, Reading Rilke: Reflections on the Problems of Translation
Most days I live awed by the world we have still, rather than mourning the worlds we have lost. The bandit mask of a ced — Paul Bogard, The End of Night: Searching for Natural Darkness in an Age of Artificial Light
Perhaps all the dragons of your life are princesses, who are only waiting for us to show a little beauty and courage. Pe — Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet