Quotes about Rilke

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Keep growing quietly and seriously throughout your whole development — you cannot disturb it more rudely than by looking outward and expecting from outside replies to questions that only your inmost feeling in your most hushed hour can perhaps answer.
...In a case like this, the thing is (in my own opinion) to draw back upon oneself, and not to strive after any other be — Rainer Maria Rilke
Whoever you are, go out into the evening,leaving your room, of which you know every bit;your house is the last before th — Rainer Maria Rilke
In his field, and with his means, Rilke carries out an operation that one could philosophically describe as the 'transfo — Peter Sloterdijk, Du mußt dein Leben ändern
In the midst of the ubiquitous dealings with prostituted signs, the thing-poem was capable of opening up the prospect of — Peter Sloterdijk, Du mußt dein Leben ändern
This gesture is one of the motifs of modernity's turn against the principle of imitating nature, that is to say, imitati — Peter Sloterdijk, Du mußt dein Leben ändern
If you think your world isn’t poetic enough, or exciting enough to tell a story about, that’s not because it’s a dull wo — Rainer Maria Rilke
What the poet has to say to the torso of the supposed Apollo, however, is more than a note on an excursion to the antiqu — Peter Sloterdijk, Du mußt dein Leben ändern
It is clear enough that not every something can be elevated to the rank of a thing - otherwise everything and everyone w — Peter Sloterdijk
The reason for the existence of the perfection conjured up in these fourteen lines is that it possesses ... the authoriz — Peter Sloterdijk, Du mußt dein Leben ändern
As we know, Rilke, under the influence of Auguste Rodin, whom he had assisted between 1905 and 1906 in Meudon as a priva — Peter Sloterdijk, Du mußt dein Leben ändern
We only pass everything by like a transposition of air. — Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies