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Rilke_-_Poems

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IN CHAPTERS CLASSNAME
1.rmr_-_Abishag
1.rmr_-_Adam
1.rmr_-_Again_and_Again
1.rmr_-_Along_the_Sun-Drenched_Roadside
1.rmr_-_As_Once_the_Winged_Energy_of_Delight
1.rmr_-_A_Sybil
1.rmr_-_Autumn
1.rmr_-_Autumn_Day
1.rmr_-_A_Walk
1.rmr_-_Before_Summer_Rain
1.rmr_-_Black_Cat_(Schwarze_Katze)
1.rmr_-_Blank_Joy
1.rmr_-_Buddha_in_Glory
1.rmr_-_Childhood
1.rmr_-_Child_In_Red
1.rmr_-_Death
1.rmr_-_Dedication
1.rmr_-_Dedication_To_M...
1.rmr_-_Early_Spring
1.rmr_-_Elegy_I
1.rmr_-_Elegy_IV
1.rmr_-_Elegy_X
1.rmr_-_Encounter_In_The_Chestnut_Avenue
1.rmr_-_English_translationGerman
1.rmr_-_Eve
1.rmr_-_Evening
1.rmr_-_Evening_Love_Song
1.rmr_-_Exposed_on_the_cliffs_of_the_heart
1.rmr_-_Extinguish_Thou_My_Eyes
1.rmr_-_Falconry
1.rmr_-_Falling_Stars
1.rmr_-_Fear_of_the_Inexplicable
1.rmr_-_Fire's_Reflection
1.rmr_-_For_Hans_Carossa
1.rmr_-_Girl_in_Love
1.rmr_-_Girl's_Lament
1.rmr_-_God_Speaks_To_Each_Of_Us
1.rmr_-_Going_Blind
1.rmr_-_Greek_Love-Talk
1.rmr_-_Growing_Old
1.rmr_-_Heartbeat
1.rmr_-_Ignorant_Before_The_Heavens_Of_My_Life
1.rmr_-_Interior_Portrait
1.rmr_-_In_The_Beginning
1.rmr_-_Lady_At_A_Mirror
1.rmr_-_Lady_On_A_Balcony
1.rmr_-_Lament
1.rmr_-_Lament_(O_how_all_things_are_far_removed)
1.rmr_-_Lament_(Whom_will_you_cry_to,_heart?)
1.rmr_-_Little_Tear-Vase
1.rmr_-_Loneliness
1.rmr_-_Losing
1.rmr_-_Love_Song
1.rmr_-_Moving_Forward
1.rmr_-_Music
1.rmr_-_My_Life
1.rmr_-_Narcissus
1.rmr_-_Night_(O_you_whose_countenance)
1.rmr_-_Night_(This_night,_agitated_by_the_growing_storm)
1.rmr_-_On_Hearing_Of_A_Death
1.rmr_-_Palm
1.rmr_-_Parting
1.rmr_-_Portrait_of_my_Father_as_a_Young_Man
1.rmr_-_Put_Out_My_Eyes
1.rmr_-_Rememberance
1.rmr_-_Sacrifice
1.rmr_-_Self-Portrait
1.rmr_-_Sense_Of_Something_Coming
1.rmr_-_Slumber_Song
1.rmr_-_Solemn_Hour
1.rmr_-_Song
1.rmr_-_Song_Of_The_Orphan
1.rmr_-_Song_Of_The_Sea
1.rmr_-_Song_Of_The_Women_To_The_Poet
1.rmr_-_Spanish_Dancer
1.rmr_-_Sunset
1.rmr_-_Telling_You_All
1.rmr_-_The_Alchemist
1.rmr_-_The_Apple_Orchard
1.rmr_-_The_Future
1.rmr_-_The_Grown-Up
1.rmr_-_The_Last_Evening
1.rmr_-_The_Lovers
1.rmr_-_The_Neighbor
1.rmr_-_The_Panther
1.rmr_-_The_Poet
1.rmr_-_The_Sisters
1.rmr_-_The_Song_Of_The_Beggar
1.rmr_-_The_Sonnets_To_Orpheus_-_Book_2_-_I
1.rmr_-_The_Sonnets_To_Orpheus_-_Book_2_-_VI
1.rmr_-_The_Sonnets_To_Orpheus_-_Book_2_-_XIII
1.rmr_-_The_Sonnets_To_Orpheus_-_I
1.rmr_-_The_Sonnets_To_Orpheus_-_IV
1.rmr_-_The_Sonnets_To_Orpheus_-_X
1.rmr_-_The_Sonnets_To_Orpheus_-_XIX
1.rmr_-_The_Sonnets_To_Orpheus_-_XXV
1.rmr_-_The_Spanish_Dancer
1.rmr_-_The_Swan
1.rmr_-_The_Unicorn
1.rmr_-_The_Voices
1.rmr_-_The_Wait
1.rmr_-_Time_and_Again
1.rmr_-_To_Lou_Andreas-Salome
1.rmr_-_To_Music
1.rmr_-_Torso_of_an_Archaic_Apollo
1.rmr_-_To_Say_Before_Going_to_Sleep
1.rmr_-_Venetian_Morning
1.rmr_-_Water_Lily
1.rmr_-_What_Birds_Plunge_Through_Is_Not_The_Intimate_Space
1.rmr_-_What_Fields_Are_As_Fragrant_As_Your_Hands?
1.rmr_-_What_Survives
1.rmr_-_Woman_in_Love
1.rmr_-_World_Was_In_The_Face_Of_The_Beloved
1.rmr_-_You_Must_Not_Understand_This_Life_(with_original_German)
1.rmr_-_You_Who_Never_Arrived
1.rmr_-_You,_you_only,_exist

IN CHAPTERS TEXT
1.rmr_-_Abishag
1.rmr_-_Adam
1.rmr_-_Again_and_Again
1.rmr_-_Along_the_Sun-Drenched_Roadside
1.rmr_-_As_Once_the_Winged_Energy_of_Delight
1.rmr_-_A_Sybil
1.rmr_-_Autumn
1.rmr_-_Autumn_Day
1.rmr_-_A_Walk
1.rmr_-_Before_Summer_Rain
1.rmr_-_Black_Cat_(Schwarze_Katze)
1.rmr_-_Blank_Joy
1.rmr_-_Buddha_in_Glory
1.rmr_-_Childhood
1.rmr_-_Child_In_Red
1.rmr_-_Death
1.rmr_-_Dedication
1.rmr_-_Dedication_To_M...
1.rmr_-_Early_Spring
1.rmr_-_Elegy_I
1.rmr_-_Elegy_IV
1.rmr_-_Elegy_X
1.rmr_-_Encounter_In_The_Chestnut_Avenue
1.rmr_-_English_translationGerman
1.rmr_-_Eve
1.rmr_-_Evening
1.rmr_-_Evening_Love_Song
1.rmr_-_Exposed_on_the_cliffs_of_the_heart
1.rmr_-_Extinguish_Thou_My_Eyes
1.rmr_-_Falconry
1.rmr_-_Falling_Stars
1.rmr_-_Fear_of_the_Inexplicable
1.rmr_-_Fire's_Reflection
1.rmr_-_For_Hans_Carossa
1.rmr_-_Girl_in_Love
1.rmr_-_Girl's_Lament
1.rmr_-_God_Speaks_To_Each_Of_Us
1.rmr_-_Going_Blind
1.rmr_-_Greek_Love-Talk
1.rmr_-_Growing_Old
1.rmr_-_Heartbeat
1.rmr_-_Ignorant_Before_The_Heavens_Of_My_Life
1.rmr_-_Interior_Portrait
1.rmr_-_In_The_Beginning
1.rmr_-_Lady_At_A_Mirror
1.rmr_-_Lady_On_A_Balcony
1.rmr_-_Lament
1.rmr_-_Lament_(O_how_all_things_are_far_removed)
1.rmr_-_Lament_(Whom_will_you_cry_to,_heart?)
1.rmr_-_Little_Tear-Vase
1.rmr_-_Loneliness
1.rmr_-_Losing
1.rmr_-_Love_Song
1.rmr_-_Moving_Forward
1.rmr_-_Music
1.rmr_-_My_Life
1.rmr_-_Narcissus
1.rmr_-_Night_(O_you_whose_countenance)
1.rmr_-_Night_(This_night,_agitated_by_the_growing_storm)
1.rmr_-_On_Hearing_Of_A_Death
1.rmr_-_Palm
1.rmr_-_Parting
1.rmr_-_Portrait_of_my_Father_as_a_Young_Man
1.rmr_-_Put_Out_My_Eyes
1.rmr_-_Rememberance
1.rmr_-_Sacrifice
1.rmr_-_Self-Portrait
1.rmr_-_Sense_Of_Something_Coming
1.rmr_-_Slumber_Song
1.rmr_-_Solemn_Hour
1.rmr_-_Song
1.rmr_-_Song_Of_The_Orphan
1.rmr_-_Song_Of_The_Sea
1.rmr_-_Song_Of_The_Women_To_The_Poet
1.rmr_-_Spanish_Dancer
1.rmr_-_Sunset
1.rmr_-_Telling_You_All
1.rmr_-_The_Alchemist
1.rmr_-_The_Apple_Orchard
1.rmr_-_The_Future
1.rmr_-_The_Grown-Up
1.rmr_-_The_Last_Evening
1.rmr_-_The_Lovers
1.rmr_-_The_Neighbor
1.rmr_-_The_Panther
1.rmr_-_The_Poet
1.rmr_-_The_Sisters
1.rmr_-_The_Song_Of_The_Beggar
1.rmr_-_The_Sonnets_To_Orpheus_-_Book_2_-_I
1.rmr_-_The_Sonnets_To_Orpheus_-_Book_2_-_VI
1.rmr_-_The_Sonnets_To_Orpheus_-_Book_2_-_XIII
1.rmr_-_The_Sonnets_To_Orpheus_-_I
1.rmr_-_The_Sonnets_To_Orpheus_-_IV
1.rmr_-_The_Sonnets_To_Orpheus_-_X
1.rmr_-_The_Sonnets_To_Orpheus_-_XIX
1.rmr_-_The_Sonnets_To_Orpheus_-_XXV
1.rmr_-_The_Spanish_Dancer
1.rmr_-_The_Swan
1.rmr_-_The_Unicorn
1.rmr_-_The_Voices
1.rmr_-_The_Wait
1.rmr_-_Time_and_Again
1.rmr_-_To_Lou_Andreas-Salome
1.rmr_-_To_Music
1.rmr_-_Torso_of_an_Archaic_Apollo
1.rmr_-_To_Say_Before_Going_to_Sleep
1.rmr_-_Venetian_Morning
1.rmr_-_Water_Lily
1.rmr_-_What_Birds_Plunge_Through_Is_Not_The_Intimate_Space
1.rmr_-_What_Fields_Are_As_Fragrant_As_Your_Hands?
1.rmr_-_What_Survives
1.rmr_-_Woman_in_Love
1.rmr_-_World_Was_In_The_Face_Of_The_Beloved
1.rmr_-_You_Must_Not_Understand_This_Life_(with_original_German)
1.rmr_-_You_Who_Never_Arrived
1.rmr_-_You,_you_only,_exist

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1:No feeling is final ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
2:And fly with more affection." ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
3:some secret hope. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies,
4:fitfully wander, when the wild leaves loosen. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke, Day in Autumn,
5:And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
6:he future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
7:Be out of sync with your times for just one day, and you will see how much eternity you contain within you. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
8:Whoever you are, go out into the evening, leaving your room, of which you know every bit; your house is the last before the infinite, whoever you are. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
9:The necessary thing is after all but this; solitude, great inner solitude. Going into oneself for hours meeting no one - this one must be able to attain. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke ,
10:What is necessary, after all, is only this: solitude, vast inner solitude. To walk inside yourself and meet no one for hours ~ that is what you must be able to attain." ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
11:Take your practiced powers and stretch them out until they span the chasm between contradictions... For the god wants to know himself in you." ~ Rainer Maria Rilke, (1875 - 1926), Bohemian-Austrian poet and novelist, Wikipedia.,
12:A billion stars go spinning through the night, blazing high above your head. But in you is the presence that will be, when all the stars are dead," ~ Rainer Maria Rilke, (1875 - 1926), Bohemian-Austrian poet and novelist, Wikipedia.,
13:I am too alone in the world and not alone enough to make every moment holy." ~ Rainer Maria Rilke, (1875-1926), Bohemian-Austrian poet and novelist, widely recognized as one of the most lyrically intense German-language poets, Wikipedia,
14:And we too, just once. and never again. But to have been this once, completely, even if only once: to have been at one with the earth, seems beyond undoing." ~ Rainer Maria Rilke, (1875 - 1926), Bohemian-Austrian poet & novelist. Wikipedia,
15:Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
16:Be patent toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves." ~ Rainer Maria Rilke, (1875 - 1926), Bohemian-Austrian poet and novelist, widely recognized as one of the most lyrically intense German-language poets, Wikipedia.,
17:Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels' hierarchies?
And even if one of them pressed me suddenly against his heart:
I would be consumed in that overwhelming existence.
For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we are still just able to endure,
And we are so awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us.
Every angel is terrifying.
And so I hold myself back and swallow the call-note of my dark sobbing.
Ah, whom can we ever turn to in our need?
Not angels, not humans, and already the knowing animals are aware
That we are not really at home in our interpreted world. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
18:We have no reason to harbor any mistrust against our world, for it is not against us. If it has terrors, they are our terrors; if it has abysses, these abysses belong to us; if there are dangers, we must try to love them. And if only we arrange our life in accordance with the principle which tells us that we must always trust in the difficult, then what now appears to us as the most alien will become our most intimate and trusted experience. How could we forget those ancient myths that stand at the beginning of all races, the myths about dragons that at the last moment are transformed into princesses? Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet,
19:... although there is almost nothing I can say that will help you, and I can harly find one useful word. You have had many sadnesses, large ones, which passed. And you say that even this passing was difficult and upsetting for you. But please, ask yourself whether these large sadnesses haven't rather gone right through you. Perhaps many things inside you have been transformed; perhaps somewhere, deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while you were sad. 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; like diseases that are treated superficially and foolishly, they just withdraw and after a short interval break out again all the more terribly; and gather inside us and are life, are life that is unlived, rejected, lost, life that we can die of. If only it were possible for us to see farther than our knowledge reaches, and even a little beyond the outworks of our presentiment, perhaps we would bear our sadnesses with greater trust than we have in our joys. For they are the moments when something new has entered us, something unknown; our feelings grow mute in shy embarrassment, everything in us withdraws, a silence arises, and the new experience, which no one knows, stands in the midst of it all and says nothing. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet, August 12, 1904,
20:Recommended Reading
David Foster Wallace - Infinite Jest
DH Lawrence - The Rainbow
Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Love in the Time of Cholera
Karl Ove Knausgaard - My Struggle
Virginia Woolf - To The Lighthouse
Ben Lerner - The Topeka School
Sally Rooney - Conversations With Friends
Nell Zink - The Wallcreeper
Elena Ferrante - The Days of Abandonment
Jack Kerouac - Dharma Bums
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass
Michael Murphy - Golf in the Kingdom
Barbara Kingsolver - Prodigal Summer
Albertine Sarrazin - Astragal
Rebecca Solnit - The Faraway Nearby
Michael Paterniti - Love and Other Ways of Dying
Rainer Maria Rilke - Book of Hours
James Baldwin - Another Country
Roberto Calasso - Ka
Translation by S. Radhakrishan - Principle Upanisads
Chogyam Trungpa - Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism
Translation by Georg Feuerstein - Yoga Sutra
Richard Freeman - The Mirror of Yoga
Translation by S. Radhakrishan - The Bhagavad Gita
Shrunyu Suzuki - Zen Mind Beginner's Mind
Heinrich Zimmer - Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization
Sogyal Rinpoche - The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
Joseph Campbell - Myths of Light
Joseph Campbell - The Hero With A Thousand Faces
Sri Aurobindo - Savitri
Thomas Meyers - Anatomy Trains
Wendy Doniger - The Hindus ~ Jason Bowman, http://www.jasonbowmanyoga.com/recommended-reading,

*** WISDOM TROVE ***

1: No feeling is final. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
2:To be here is immense. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
3:Our heart always transcends us. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
4:The point is to live everything. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
5:Where I create, there I am true. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
6:Art too is a just a way of living. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
7:The only journey is the one within. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
8:.. of the world you carry within you. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
9:What batters you becomes your strength. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
10:Everything is gestation and then birthing. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
11:So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
12:Works of Art are of an infinite loneliness. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
13:All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
14:Life is heavier than the weight of all things. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
15:To be an artist means not to compute or count. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
16:Go on loving what is good, simple, and ordinary. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
17:I believe in all that has never yet been spoken. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
18:I implore those who love me to love my solitude. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
19:Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
20:Wishes are recollections coming from the future. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
21:Life + a cat ... adds up to an incalculable sum. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
22:More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
23:There is only one journey. Going inside yourself. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
24:I believe that nothing that is real can pass away. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
25:Who speaks of conquering? To endure is everything. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
26:Is not impermanence the very fragrance of our days? ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
27:Everything terrible is something that needs our love. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
28:Go into yourself. Dig into yourself for a deep answer. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
29:Death is the side of life which is turned away from us. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
30:Don't take my devils away, because my angels may flee too. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
31:Do not allow yourself to be misled by the surfaces of things ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
32:I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
33:I want to love the things as no one has thought to love them. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
34:Never believe fate is more than the condensation of childhood. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
35:There is time only to work slowly There is no time not to love. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
36:Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
37:Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
38:Trees do not force their sap, nor does the flower push its bloom. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
39:What happens most deeply inside you is worthy of your whole love. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
40:Our deepest fears are like dragons, guarding our deepest treasure. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
41:My blood is alive with many voices telling me I am made of longing. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
42:One moment your life is a stone in you, and the next moment a star! ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
43:Do not be bewildered by the surfaces: in the depths all becomes law. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
44:I am the rest between two notes which are somehow always in discord. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
45:In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
46:The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
47:And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
48:Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
49:Fame is the sum of the misunderstanding that gathers about a new name. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
50:But there is much beauty here, because there is much beauty everywhere. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
51:No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
52:Perhaps creating something is nothing but an act of profound remembrance. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
53:Be, in this immensity of night, the magic force at your sense's crossroad. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
54:Go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
55:Since I've learned to be silent, everything has come so much closer to me. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
56:There are moments in which a rose is more important than a piece of bread. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
57:When we are only victorious over small things, it leaves us feeling small. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
58:I am too alone in the world and not alone enough to make every moment holy. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
59:The highest form of love is to be the protector of another person solitude. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
60:The knowledge of impermanence that haunts our days is their very fragrance. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
61:What is needed is, in the end, simply this: solitude, great inner solitude. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
62:All this hurrying soon will be over. Only when we tarry do we touch the holy. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
63:If we surrendered to earth’s intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
64:Every happiness is the child of a separation it did not think it could survive. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
65:Across the moment, aeons speak with aeons. More than we experienced has gone by. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
66:A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
67:As bees gather honey, so we collect what is sweetest out of all things and build. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
68:God, gives us each our own death, the dying that proceeds from each of our lives. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
69:Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
70:A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
71:He who understands one thing understands everything, for the same laws are in all. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
72:I live not in dreams but in contemplation of a reality that is perhaps the future. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
73:Joy is a marvellous increasing of what exists, a pure addition out of nothingness. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
74:God speaks to each of us as he makes us, then walks with us silently out of the night. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
75:The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
76:As if no one had ever tried before, try to say what you see and feel and love and lose. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
77:May you find in yourself enough patience to endure and enough simplicity to have faith. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
78:I want to unfold. Let no place in me hold itself closed, for where I am closed, I am false. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
79:Most experiences are unsayable; they come to fullness in a realm that words do not inhabit. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
80:Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
81:I learn it every day of my life, learn it with pain I am grateful for: patience is everything! ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
82:A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
83:Love and death are the greatest gifts that are given to us; mostly they are passed on unopened. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
84:Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
85:The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned within you. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
86:The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
87:I want to unfold. I don’t want to stay folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
88:Timeless sea breezes, that for ages have blown ancient rocks, you are purest space coming from afar. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
89:May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
90:If, when you wake up in the morning, you can think of nothing but writing . . . then you are a writer. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
91:The artist's task consists of making one thing of many, and a world from the smallest part of a thing. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
92:For poems are not, as people think, simply emotions (one has emotions early enough)-they are experiences. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
93:What keeps you from... living your life as a painful and lovely day in the history of a great pregnancy? ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
94:The flower bends when the wind wants it to, and you must become like that-that is, filled with deep trust. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
95:Be out of sync with your times for just one day, and you will see how much eternity you contain within you. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
96:Our task is to take this earth so deeply and wholly into ourselves that it will resurrect within our being. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
97:In one creative thought a thousand forgotten nights of love revive, filling it with sublimity and exaltation. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
98:Deeply I go down into myself. My god is Dark and like a webbing made of a hundred roots that drink in silence. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
99:Success, which is something so simple in the end, is made up of thousands of things, we never fully know what. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
100:I could give you no advice but this: to go into yourself and to explore the depths where your life wells forth. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
101:I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
102:There are no classes in life for beginners: right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
103:This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
104:It is part of the nature of every definitive love that sooner or later it can reach the beloved only in infinity. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
105:When something becomes extremely difficult and unbearable, there we also stand already quite near its transformation. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
106:Dying is strange and hard if it is not our death, but a depth that takes us by storm, when we’ve ripened none within us. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
107:We must accept our reality as vastly as we possibly can; everything, even the unprecedented, must be possible within it. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
108:We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
109:It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
110:Don't observe yourself too closely. Don't be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you; simply let it happen. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
111:I know of no other advice than this: Go within and scale the depths of your being from which your very life springs forth. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
112:This is what things can teach us: to fall, patiently to trust our heaviness. Even a bird has to do that before he can fly. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
113:You are not too old and it is not too late to dive into your increasing depths where life calmly gives out its own secret. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
114:Everything that makes more of you than you have ever been, even in your best hours, is right. Every intensification is good. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
115:I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each shall stand guard over the solitude of the other. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
116:It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
117:Embrace your solitude and love it. Endure the pain it causes, and try to sing out with it. For those near to you are distant. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
118:Where something becomes extremely difficult and unbearable, there we also stand always already quite near its transformation. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
119:Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
120:We make our way through everything like a thread passing through fabric, giving shape to images, that we ourselves do not know. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
121:Your preparation for the real world is not in the answers you’ve learned, but in the questions you’ve learned how to ask yourself. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
122:And you should not let yourself be confused in your solitude by the fact that there is something in you that wants to move out of it. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
123:To be loved means to be consumed. To love is to give light with inexhaustible oil. To be loved is to pass away, to love is to endure. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
124:Yet everything that touches us, me and you, takes us together like a violin's bow, which draws one voice out of two separate strings. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
125:A person isn’t who they are during the last conversation you had with them – they’re who they’ve been throughout your whole relationship. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
126:More unsayable than all other things are works of art, those mysterious existences, whose life endures beside our own small, transitory life. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
127:Your solitude will expand and become a place where you can live in the twilight, where the noise of other people passes, far in the distance. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
128:If no one else, the dying must notice how unreal, how full of pretense, is all that we accomplish here, where nothing is allowed to be itself. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
129:You must realise that something is happening to you, that life has not forgotten you, that is holds you in its hand and will not let you fall. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
130:You must think that something is happening upon you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand; it will not let you fall. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
131:A billion stars go spinning through the night, glittering above your head. But in you is the presence that will be when all the stars are dead. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
132:Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
133:Works of art are of infinite solitude, and no means of approach is so useless as criticism. Only love can touch and hold them and be fair to them. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
134:But 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, @wisdomtrove
135:Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
136:It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
137:Solitude is nothing that one can choose or retrain from. We are solitary. We can delude ourselves about this and act as if it were not true. That is all. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
138:The necessary thing is after all but this; solitude, great inner solitude. Going into oneself for hours meeting no one - this one must be able to attain. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
139:If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
140:I have never been aware before how many faces there are. There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.  ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
141:Perhaps we should then bear our sadness with greater assurance than our joys. For they are the moments when something new enters us, something unknown to us. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
142:This is in the end the only kind of courage that is required of us: the courage to face the strangest, most unusual, most inexplicable experiences that can meet us. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
143: He does not always remain bent over pages; he often leans back and closes his eyes over a line he has been reading again, and its meaning spreads through his blood. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
144:What is necessary, after all, is only thing: solitude, vast inner solitude. To walk inside yourself and meet no one for hours—that is what you must be able to attain. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
145:He does not always remain bent over the pages; he often leans back and closes his eyes over a line he has been reading again, and its meaning spreads through his blood. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
146:I am circling around God, around the ancient tower, and I have been circling for a thousand years, and I still don’t know if I am a falcon, or a storm, or a great song. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
147:They, who passed away long ago, still exist in us, as predisposition, as burden upon our fate, as murmuring blood, and as gesture that rises up from the depths of time. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
148:Let your beauty manifest itself without talking and calculation. You are silent. It says for you: I am. And comes in meaning thousandfold, come at long last over everyone. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
149:.. sat down for a moment when the dog was finished in order to watch it... and to know that it was good, that nothing was lacking, that it could not have been made better. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
150:And do not change. Do not divert your love from visible things. But go on loving what is good, simple and ordinary; animals and things and flowers, and keep the balance true. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
151:Let your beauty manifest itself without talking and calculation.​ You are silent. It says for you: I am. And comes in meaning thousandfold​, comes at long last over everyone. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
152:One of the most difficult tests for the creator: he must always remain unconscious, unaware of his best virtues, if he doesn't want to rob them of their candor and innocence. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
153:But learning-time is always a long, secluded time, and so loving, for a long while ahead and far on into life, is-solitude, intensified and deepened loneness for him who loves. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
154:Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Do not despair if the answers don't come immediately. Some answers are only revealed with the passage of time. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
155:Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
156:Destiny itself is like a wonderful wide tapestry in which every thread is guided by an unspeakable tender hand, placed beside another thread and held and carried by a hundred others. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
157:For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
158:Right in the difficult we must have our joy, our happiness, our dreams: there against the depth of this background they stand out, there for the first time we see how beautiful they are. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
159:A merging of two people is an impossibility, and where it seems to exist, it is a hemming-in, a mutual consent that robs one party or both parties of their fullest freedom and development. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
160:Most people have turned their solutions toward what is easy and toward the easiest side of the easy; but it is clear that we must trust in what is difficult; everything alive trusts in it. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
161:Right in the difficult we must have our joys, our happiness, our dreams: there against the depth of this background, they stand out, there for the first time we see how beautiful they are. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
162:The artist's experience lies so unbelievably close to the sexual, to its pain and its pleasure, that the two phenomena are really just different forms of one and the same longing and bliss. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
163:The quieter we are, the more patient and open we are in our sadnesses, the more deeply and serenely the new presence can enter us, and the more we can make it our own, the more it becomes our fate. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
164:He who does not at some time, with definite determination consent to the terribleness of life, or even exalt in it, never takes possession of the inexpressible fullness of the power of our existence. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
165:What goes on in your innermost being is worth all your love, this is what you must work on however you can and not waste too much time and too much energy on clarifying your attitude to other people. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
166:Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force its sap and stands confidence in the storms of spring without fear that after them may come no summer. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
167:We must embrace struggle. Every living thing conforms to it. Everything in nature grows and struggles in its own way, establishing its own identity, insisting on it at all cost, against all resistance. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
168:If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
169:Understand, I’ll slip away from the noisy crowd when I see the pale stars rising, blooming, over the oaks. I’ll pursue solitary pathways through the pale twilit meadows, with only this one dream: You come too. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
170:People have tended (with the help of conventions) to resolve everything in the directions of easiness, of the light, and on the lightest side of light, but it is clear that we must hold to the heavy; the difficult. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
171:What is necessary, after all, is only this: solitude, vast inner solitude. To walk inside yourself and meet no one for hours-that is what you must be able to attain. To be solitary as you were when you were a child. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
172:If only we arrange our life according to that principle which counsels us that we must hold to the difficult, then that which now still seems to us the most alien will become what we most trust and find most faithful. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
173:It is clear that we must embrace struggle. Every living thing conforms to it. Everything in nature grows and struggles in its own way, establishing its own identity, insisting on it at all cost, against all resistance. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
174:We wasters of sorrows! How we stare away into sad endurance beyond them, trying to foresee their end! Whereas they are nothing else than our winter foliage, our sombre evergreen, one of the seasons of our interior year. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
175:Bound by conventions, people tend to reach for what is easy. Here we must be unafraid of what is difficult. For all living beings in nature must unfold in their particular way and become themselves despite all opposition. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
176:When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its great wide sounds, cleanses me with its noise, and imposes a rhythm, upon everything in me that is bewildered and confused. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
177:Don't be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you; simply let it happen. Otherwise it will be too easy for you to look with blame... at your past, which naturally has a share with everything that now meets you. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
178:The deep parts of my life pour onward, as if the river shores were opening out. I feel closer to what language can't reach. With my senses, as with birds, I climb into the windy heaven... in the ponds broken off from the sky. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
179: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, @wisdomtrove
180:Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
181:Works of art always spring from those who have faced the danger, gone to the very end of an experience, to the point beyond which no human being can go. The further one dares to go, the more decent, the more personal, the more unique a life becomes. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
182:Whoever now makes himself bigger, freer and more human in his own existence, is doing his part toward peace, — as yet it must be worked at in an inward direction, not until a few have it all big and ready within them can it let itself be brought into the world. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
183:At bottom, and just in the deepest and most important things, we are unutterably alone, and for one person to be able to advise or even help another, a lot must happen, a lot must go well, a whole constellation of things must come right in order once to succeed. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
184:Again and again in history some people wake up. They have no ground in the crowd and move to broader deeper laws. They carry strange customs with them and demand room for bold and audacious action. The future speaks ruthlessly through them. They change the world. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
185:The point of marriage is not to create a quick commonality by tearing down all boundaries on the contrary, a good marriage is one in which each partner appoints the other to be the guardian of his solitude, and thus they show each other the greatest possible trust. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
186:Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
187:No experience has been too unimportant, and the smallest event unfolds like a fate, and fate itself is like a wonderful, wide fabric in which every thread is guided by an infinitely tender hand and laid alongside another thread and is held and supported by a hundred others. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
188:This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess of that precious nourishing love from which flowers and children have their strength and which could help all human beings if they would take it without doubting. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
189:Death is our friend precisely because it brings us into absolute and passionate presence with all that is here, that is natural, that is love… Life always says Yes and No simultaneously. Death (I implore you to believe) is the true Yea-sayer. It stands before eternity and says only: Yes. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
190:Nobody can counsel and help you, nobody. There is only one single way. Go into yourself. Search for the reason that bids you write; find out whether it is spreading out its roots in the deepest places of your heart, acknowledge to yourself whether you would have to die if it were denied you to write. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
191:Why don't you conceive of God as an ally who is coming, who has been approaching since time began, the one who will someday arrive, the fruit of a tree whose leaves we are? Why not project his birth into the future, and live your life as an excruciating and lyrical moment in the history of a prodigious pregnancy? ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
192:To love is also good, for love is hard. Love between one person and another: that is perhaps the hardest thing it is laid on us to do, the utmost, the ultimate trial and test, the work for which all other work is just preparation. For this reason, young people, who are beginners in everything, do not know how to love: they must learn. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
193:What is required of us is that we love the difficult and learn to deal with it. In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us. Right in the difficult we must have our joys, our happiness, our dreams: there against the depth of this background, they stand out, there for the first time we see how beautiful they are. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
194:You have had many sadnesses, large ones, which passed. ... But please, ask yourself whether these large sadnesses haven't rather gone right through you [that is, passed through you]. Perhaps many things inside you have been transformed; perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while you were sad. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
195:This above all — ask yourself in the stillest hour of your night: must I write? Delve into yourself for a deep answer. And if this should be affirmative, if you may meet this earnest question with a strong and simple “I must,” then build your life according to this necessity; your life even into its most indifferent and slightest hour must be a sign of this urge and a testimony to it. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
196:Go into yourself and test the deeps in which your life takes rise; at its source you will find the answer to the question whether you must create. Accept it, just as it sounds, without inquiring into it. Perhaps it will turn out that you are called to be an artist. Then take that destiny upon yourself and bear it, its burden and its greatness, without ever asking what reward might come from outside. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
197:Sex is difficult, yes. But they are difficult things with which we have been charged... If you only recognize this and manage out of yourself, out of your own nature and ways, out of your own experience and childhood and strength to achieve a relation to sex wholly your own (not influenced by convention and custom) then you need no longer be afraid of losing yourself and becoming unworthy of your best possession. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
198:Be patient toward all that unsolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves like locked room and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. 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 even noticing it, live your way into the answer. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
199:If you trust in Nature, in the small Things that hardly anyone sees and that can so suddenly become huge, immeasurable; if you have this love for what is humble and try very simply, as someone who serves, to win the confidence of what seems poor: then everything will become easier for you, more coherent and somehow more reconciling, not in your conscious mind perhaps, which stays behind, astonished, but in your innermost awareness, awakeness, and knowl ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
200:... love your solitude and try to sing out with the pain it causes you. For those who are near you are far away... and this shows that the space around you is beginning to grow vast... . be happy about your growth, in which of course you can't take anyone with you, and be gentle with those who stay behind; be confident and calm in front of them and don't torment them with your doubts and don't frighten them with your faith or joy, which they wouldn't be able to comprehend. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
201:It is true that these mysteries are dreadful, and people have always drawn away from them. But where can we find anything sweet and glorious that would never wear this mask, the mask of the dreadful? Whoever does not, sometimes or other, give his full consent, his full and joyous consent to the dreadfulness of life, can never take possession of the unutterable abundance and power of our existence; can only walk on its edge, and one day, when the judgment is given, will have been neither alive nor dead. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
202:And your doubt can become a good quality if you train it. It must become knowing, it must become criticism. Ask it, whenever it wants to spoil something for you, why something is ugly, demand proofs from it, test it, and you will find it perhaps bewildered and embarrassed, perhaps also protesting. But don't give in, insist on arguments, and act in this way, attentive and persistent, every single time, and the day will come when, instead of being a destroyer, it will become one of your best workers&
203:Why do you want to shut out of your life any uneasiness, any misery, any depression, since after all you don't know what work these conditions are doing inside you? Why do you want to persecute yourself with the question of where all this is coming from and where it is going? Since you know, after all, that you are in the midst of transitions and you wished for nothing so much as to change. If there is anything unhealthy in your reactions, just bear in mind that sickness is the means by which an organism frees itself from what is alien; so one must simply help it to be sick, to have its whole sickness and to break out with it, since that is the way it gets better. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove

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1:Patience is all. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
2:Art is childhood. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
3:Dance the orange. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
4:Yield not thy neck ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
5:No feeling is final. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
6:Live the questions now ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
7:To be here is immense. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
8:I have faith in nights. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
9:Live the questions now. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
10:Now for some heartwork. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
11:The grief, too, passes. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
12:Every angel is terrible. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
13:All things want to float. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
14:We are unspeakably alone. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
15:Du mußt dein Leben ändern. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
16:Every angel is terrifying. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
17:You must change your life. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
18:Life is right, in any case. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
19:Spring has again returned. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
20:Truly being here is glorious. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
21:In the depths all becomes law. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
22:Love the questions, themselves. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
23:Our heart always transcends us. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
24:Art too is just a way of living. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
25:Ein Jeder engel ist schrecklich. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
26:Our own heart always exceeds us. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
27:Space for the Spirit to breathe. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
28:The point is to live everything. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
29:Where I create, there I am true. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
30:To work is to live without dying. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
31:Ich habe Hymnen, die ich schweige. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
32:What would you do, God, if I died? ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
33:Ist dir Trinken bitter, werde Wein. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
34:The only journey is the one within. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
35:Thus we live, forever taking leave. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
36:I would like to step out of my heart ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
37:In the depths everything becomes law. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
38:It is nothing but a breath, the void. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
39:Patience is everything. RAINER MARIA RILKE ~ Sue Monk Kidd,
40:Truly it is glorious, our being here. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
41:Und dann und wann ein Weiser Elephant ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
42:Just keep going - no feeling is final. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
43:Learn to love the questions themselves. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
44:What batters you becomes your strength. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
45:Who speaks of victory? To endure is all. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
46:Everywhere I am folded, there I am a lie. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
47:God speaks to each of us as he makes us, ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
48:Tolerating is the gift from God to women! ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
49:Everything is gestation and then birthing. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
50:So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
51:Truly to sing, that is a different breath. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
52:All professions are... filled with demands. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
53:patience is the art of courting the future. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
54:Think... of the world you carry within you. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
55:Wishes are memories coming from our future! ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
56:Works of Art are of an infinite loneliness. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
57:Beauty is only the start of bearable terror. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
58:All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
59:Beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
60:Life is heavier than the weight of all things. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
61:Los pájaros nos traspasan en vuelo silencioso. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
62:To be an artist means not to compute or count. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
63:Go on loving what is good, simple, and ordinary. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
64:I believe in all that has never yet been spoken. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
65:I implore those who love me to love my solitude. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
66:Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
67:Life + a cat ... adds up to an incalculable sum. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
68:Resolve to be always beginning-to be a beginner! ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
69:That is longing: To dwell in the flux of things, ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
70:To love is to give light with inexhaustible oil. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
71:Wishes are recollections coming from the future. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
72:Don't petals of soft words float upon your blood? ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
73:I am touched by your beautiful anxiety about life ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
74:Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
75:More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
76:Of all my books, I find only a few indispensible. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
77:Strangely, I heard a stranger say, I am with you. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
78:Swells, Marina? we ocean, depths, Marina? we sky! ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
79:The future must enter you long before it happens. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
80:There is only one journey. Going inside yourself. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
81:We ignore the gods and fill our minds with trash. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
82:You who let yourselves feel: enter the breathing ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
83:Ești miza jocului pe care de-l câștigi pierzi tot. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
84:For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
85:I am touched by your beautiful anxiety about life. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
86:I believe that nothing that is real can pass away. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
87:Sin is the most wonderfully roundabout path to God ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
88:The hero is strangely akin to those who die young. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
89:True singing is a different breath, about nothing. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
90:Who speaks of conquering? To endure is everything. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
91:Because I never held you close, I hold you forever. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
92:Is not impermanence the very fragrance of our days? ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
93:It is also good to love: because love is difficult. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
94:that young man, like the son of a neck
and a nun ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
95:Who has not sat, afraid, before his heart's curtain? ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
96:Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
97:Everything terrible is something that needs our love. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
98:Go into yourself. Dig into yourself for a deep answer ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
99:Je mehr Liebe man gibt, desto mehr besitzt man davon. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
100:Nothing touches a work of art so little as criticism. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
101:Not numbering and counting, but ripening like a tree. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
102:Porque lo bello no es sino el comienzo de lo terrible ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
103:und hinter tausend Stäben keine Welt.
Der Panther ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
104:Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading! ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
105:Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
106:Not since Moses has anyone seen a mountain so greatly. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
107:Death is the side of life which is turned away from us. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
108:I am much too alone in this world, yet not alone enough ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
109:The more human we become, the more different we become. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
110:There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
111:I am much too alone in this world, yet not alone enough. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
112:Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
113:Painting is something that takes place among the colors. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
114:The future stands firm... but we move in infinite space. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
115:The main thing was being alive. That was the main thing. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
116:Because he loves only as a male, and not as a human being ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
117:Shattered people are best represented by bits and pieces. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
118:The main thing was to be living. That was the main thing. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
119:Verweilung, auch am Verstrautesten nicht, ist uns gegeben ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
120:Don't take my devils away, because my angels may flee too. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
121:And the heart has become so tired, and the longing so vast. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
122:We only pass everything by
like a transposition of air. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
123:Do not allow yourself to be misled by the surfaces of things ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
124:If what you're drinking is bitter, let yourself be the wine. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
125:Do not allow yourself to be misled by the surfaces of things. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
126:I love the dark hours of my being. My mind deepens into them. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
127:I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
128:I want to love the things as no one has thought to love them. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
129:Just keep going. No feeling is final. —Rainer Maria Rilke ~ Hillary Rodham Clinton,
130:The artist's task consists of making one thing of many, and a ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
131:The brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
132:To be silent, to keep myself absolutely hidden, nothing else. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
133:Be ahead of all parting, as though it already were behind you. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
134:Never believe fate is more than the condensation of childhood. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
135:Stand up during supper and walk outdoors, and keep on walking. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
136:There is time only to work slowly There is no time not to love ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
137:We are not allowed to linger, even with what is most intimate. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
138:Pleas don't above all, plant me in your heart. I grow to quick. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
139:Dieses ist das erste Vorgefühl des Ewigen: Zeit haben zur Liebe. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
140:Num casal há sempre um que que é o guardião da solidão do outro. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
141:Only love can touch and hold [works of art] and be fair to them. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
142:Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
143:We are not permitted to linger, even with what is most intimate. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
144:What we do battle with is so small, what battles us is so large. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
145:Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
146:Our deepest fears are like dragons guarding our deepest treasure. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
147:There is time only to work slowly
There is no time not to love ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
148:Trees do not force their sap, nor does the flower push its bloom. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
149:What happens most deeply inside you is worthy of your whole love. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
150:Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels' hierarchies? ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
151:Almost everything serious is difficult; and everything is serious. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
152:almost everything serious is difficult, and everything is serious. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
153:Cum aş putea să mi-l mai ţin în mine sufletul când mi-l mângâi tu? ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
154:For the creator there is no poverty and no poor, indiferent place. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
155:How he loved and yet
wished to leave you: always both, at once. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
156:Our deepest fears are like dragons, guarding our deepest treasure. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
157:To have a childhood means to live a thousand lives before the one. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
158:Even between the closest human beings, infinite distances continue. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
159:I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
160:My blood is alive with many voices telling me I am made of longing. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
161:One moment your life is a stone in you, and the next moment a star! ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
162:And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
163:Angels often do now know whether they walk among the dead or living. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
164:Do not be bewildered by the surfaces: in the depths all becomes law. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
165:I am the rest between two notes which are somehow always in discord. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
166:In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
167:The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
168:We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
169:Let everything happen to you. Beauty and terror. No feeling is final. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
170:Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
171:Fame is the sum of the misunderstanding that gathers about a new name. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
172:Nearly everything that matters is a challenge, and everything matters. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
173:the future stands still dear Mr Kappus, but we move in infinite space. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
174:But there is much beauty here, because there is much beauty everywhere. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
175:Don't you see that everything that happens is always a beginning again. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
176:For there is no place that does not see you. You must change your life. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
177:No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
178:Nothing makes it more difficult to help than the intention of doing so. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
179:One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
180:What is happening on your innermost self is worthy of your entire love. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
181:I’m still alive, I have time to build
My blood will outlast the rose. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
182:It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
183:Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke #poetry,
184:What we choose to fight is so tiny!
What fights with us is so great. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
185:...a carefree letting go of oneself, not a caution, but a wise blindness. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
186:I am so glad you are here. It helps me realize how beautiful my world is. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
187:It must be immense, this silence, in which sounds and movements have room ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
188:My looking ripens things
and they come towards me, to meet and be met. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
189:No one can advise and help you, no one. There is only one way: go within. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
190:Our task is to listen to the news that is always arriving out of silence. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
191:Perhaps creating something is nothing but an act of profound remembrance. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
192:Society in its wisdom has found ways of constructing refuges of all kinds ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
193:There are moments in which a rose is more important than a piece of bread ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
194:Be, in this immensity of night, the magic force at your sense's crossroad. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
195:Go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
196:Since I've learned to be silent, everything has come so much closer to me. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
197:Since I’ve learned to be silent, everything has come so much closer to me. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
198:When we are only victorious over small things, it leaves us feeling small. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
199:I am too alone in the world and not alone enough to make every moment holy. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
200:Now I come to you full of future. And from habit we begin to live our past. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
201:Oh quickly disappearing photograph
in my more slowly disappearing hand. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
202:the knowledge of impermanence that haunts our days is their very fragrance. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
203:What is needed is, in the end, simply this: solitude, great inner solitude. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
204:You must give birth to your images. They are the future waiting to be born. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
205:Around everything that is perfected, the unfinished ascends and intensifies. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
206:Confessez-vous à vous-même: mourriez-vous s'il vous était défendu d'écrire ? ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
207:If my devils are to leave me, I'm afraid my angels will take flight as well. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
208:It seems to him there are
a thousand bars, and behind the bars, no world. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
209:Please don’t, above all,
plant me in your heart.

I grow too quick. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
210:Rose, oh pure contradiction, joy of being No-one's sleep under so many lids. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
211:All this hurrying soon will be over. Only when we tarry do we touch the holy. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
212:but there is a great deal of beauty here, because there is beauty everywhere. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
213:confess to yourself whether you would have to die if writing were denied you. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
214:If my devils are to leave me, I am afraid my angels will take flight as well. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
215:If one think he can live without writing, perhaps he should not write at all. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
216:I live my life in growing orbits which move out over the things of the world. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
217:Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and great each other. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
218:Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and greet each other. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
219:No se tiene derecho a abrir un libro si no se compromete uno a leerlos todos. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
220:The highest form of love is to be the protector of another person’s solitude. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
221:If we surrendered to earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
222:Im Schwierigen liegen die freundlichen Kräfte, die Hände, die an uns arbeiten. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
223:Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and greet each other. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
224:She has something of her very own, something suffered, accomplished, perfected ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
225:What we call fate does not come into us from the outside, but emerges from us. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
226:Every happiness is the child of a separation it did not think it could survive. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
227:For here there is no place
that does not see you. You must change your life. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
228:perhaps we would bear our sadnesses with greater trust than we have in our joys ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
229:This isn't how sickness was in childhood. A postponement. An excuse to grow up. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
230:Across the moment, aeons speak with aeons. More than we experienced has gone by. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
231:particularly in the deepest and most important things, we are unutterably alone, ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
232:Perhaps everything terrifying is at bottom the helplessness that seeks our help. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
233:Perhaps everything terrifying is deep down a helpless thing that needs our help. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
234:Someday you will name me, then gently place those burning holy roses in my hair. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
235:There is no more wretched prison than the fear of hurting someone who loves you. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
236:You are nearing the land that is life; you will recognize it by its seriousness. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
237:a good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
238:As bees gather honey, so we collect what is sweetest out of all things and build. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
239:A un Dio è concesso. Ma dimmi come può seguirlo un uomo varcando la sottile lira? ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
240:... be indulgent toward those who ... are afraid of the aloneness that you trust. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
241:Fame — the aggregate of all the misunderstandings that collect around a new name. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
242:I rouse you with loud knocking, I do so
only because I seldom hear you breathe ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
243:Joy is a marvelous increasing of what exists, a pure addition out of nothingness. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
244:Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
245:Praise, my dear one.
Let us disappear into praising.
Nothing belongs to us. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
246:We don't know the contour of feeling;
we only know what molds it from without. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
247:What we call fate does not come to us from outside: it goes forth from within us. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
248:Whoever you are: in the evening step out of your room, where you know everything; ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
249:A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
250:Aufklärung heißt nichts anderes, als die Unschuld messen mit dem Maaße der Schuld! ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
251:He who understands one thing understands everything, for the same laws are in all. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
252:ich kreise jahrtausendelang; und ich weiß noch nicht: bin ich ein Falke, ein Sturm ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
253:I don't want to stay folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
254:I have patience for centuries in me and will live as though my time were very big. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
255:I live not in dreams but in contemplation of a reality that is perhaps the future. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
256:Let everything happen to you Beauty and terror Just keep going No feeling is final ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
257:Rose, oh pure contradiction, joy
of being No-one's sleep under so many
lids. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
258:So this is where people come to live; I would have thought it is a city to die in. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
259:Across the moment, aeons speak with aeons.
More than we experienced has gone by. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
260:If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
261:Amid these fading and decaying things, be the glass that rings out as it's breaking. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
262:At first the solitude
charmed me like a prelude,
but so much music wounded me. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
263:If we surrendered
to earth's intelligence
we could rise up rooted, like trees. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
264:Irony: Don't let yourself be controlled by it, especially during uncreative moments. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
265:Nobody can advise you and help you, nobody. There is only one way. Go into yourself. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
266:Perhaps everything terrible is, in its deepest being, something that needs our love. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
267:Perhaps the same bird echoed through both of us yesterday, seperate, in the evening. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
268:The most visible joy can only reveal itself to us when we've transformed it, within. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
269:You are the deep innerness of all things,
the last word that can never be spoken. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
270:Come when you should. All this will have been/ passing through me for you to breathe. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
271:that which we call destiny goes forth from within people, not from without into them. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
272:To have a childhood means to live a thousand lives before this one. (Letters on Life) ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
273:And as for the rest, let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
274:Art means to be oblivious to the fact that the world already exists and to create one. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
275:No, my life is not this precipitous hour
through which you see me passing at a run. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
276:The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
277:You said live out loud, and die you said lightly, and over and over again you said be. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
278:As if no one had ever tried before, try to say what you see and feel and love and lose. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
279:Forest! They seek your trees to sleep among,
With their long sentences hung. Forest! ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
280:For somewhere reigns an old hostility / between living one's Life and doing one's Work. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
281:Hayatta yeni başlayanlar için sınıflar yok, insandan derhal en zor şeyi isterler daima. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
282:May you find in yourself enough patience to endure and enough simplicity to have faith. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
283:What poet's persuasion can reconcile the length of those days with the brevity of life? ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
284:you are ever again the wave     sweeping through all things     RAINER MARIA RILKE, BOOK OF HOURS ~ Ram Dass,
285:How children dance,” Rainer Maria Rilke wrote, “to the unlived lives of their parents, ~ Doris Kearns Goodwin,
286:Most of my life has been spent not understanding, and I can assure you, it was not easy. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
287:Nobody can counsel and help you, nobody. There is only one single way. Go into yourself. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
288:Therefore, dear Sir, love your solitude and try to sing out with the pain it causes you. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
289:turn towards great and serious subjects, next to which irony becomes small and helpless. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
290:Yes, you've entered my bloodstream, the room, the whole springtime is filled with you... ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
291:I am still soft, and I can be like wax in your hands. Take me, give me a form, finish me. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
292:Sein Sinn ist Zwiespalt. An der Kreuzung zweier
Herzwege steht kein Tempel für Apoll. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
293:We are solitary. We may delude ourselves and act as though this were not so. That is all. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
294:E tutto congiura a tacere di noi, in parte come vergogna, o forse come speranza indicibile. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
295:I want to unfold. Let no place in me hold itself closed, for where I am closed, I am false. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
296:Let everything happen to you
Beauty and terror
Just keep going
No feeling is final ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
297:The comprehensible slips away, is transformed; instead of possession one learns connection. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
298:Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
299:You darkness, that I come from, I love you more than all the fires that fence in the world. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
300:Young people, who are beginners in everything, cannot yet know love: they have to learn it. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
301:a band of painted horses, all from that bright land that lingers for so long before it fades ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
302:Love and death are the great gifts that are given to us; mostly they are passed on unopened. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
303:Be ahead of all farewells as if they were behind you, like the winter that is just departing. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
304:Those doves below, the ones utterly cared for, never endangered ones, cannot know tenderness. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
305:Angels (it is said) are often never quite sure whether they pass among the living or the dead. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
306:A world will come over you, the happiness, the wealth, the inconceivable greatness of a world. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
307:I learn it every day of my life, learn it with pain I am grateful for: patience is everything! ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
308:Tudo quanto é velocidade não será mais do que passado, porque só aquilo que demora nos inicia. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
309:Works of art are of an infinite solitude, and no means of approach is so useless as criticism. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
310:A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
311:Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart.
...live in the question. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
312:One has to be able at every moment to place one's hand on the earth like the first human being. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
313:Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
314:The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned within you. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
315:O shooting star
that fell into my eyes and through my body-:
not to forget you. To endure. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
316:Quizá todo lo horrible, en el fondo, sea sólo una forma de desamparo que solicita nuestra ayuda. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
317:We are solitary. We can delude ourselves about this and act as if it were not true. That is all. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
318:We are unutterably alone essentially, especially in the things most intimate and most important. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
319:Fame is finally only the sum total of all the misunderstanding that can gather around a new name. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
320:That’s love: Two lonely persons keep each other safe and touch each other and talk to each other. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
321:The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
322:There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
323:Çünkü mutludur, kendilerinden uzaklaşmamış olanlar
sessizce, çatısız, yağmurun altında duranlar ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
324:Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves... ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
325:El amor de un ser humano por otro, es posiblemente la prueba más difícil para cada uno de nosotros. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
326:I learn it daily, learn it with painto which I am grateful: patience is everything! (Letter Three). ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
327:May you gain more and more confidence in what is difficult and in your solitude among other people. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
328:in those small towns you come to realize how the cathedrals utterly outgrew their whole environment. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
329:I want to unfold. I don’t want to stay folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
330:Lass dir Alles geschehn: Schönheit und Schrecken.
Man muss nur gehn: Kein Gefühl ist das fernste. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
331:live the questions now...you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
332:May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
333:turn towards nature, and try, like a First Man, to say what you see and experience and love and lose. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
334:What an unilateral life, when from the material of a renunciation, we must fashion something we love. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
335:If, when you wake up in the morning, you can think of nothing but writing . . . then you are a writer. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
336:Kendi içine yürümek ve saatler boyu kimselere rastlamamak.
İşte erişilmesi gereken şey bizler için ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
337:Life is cut to allow for growth ... one may vigorously put on weight before one fills it out entirely. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
338:when you go to bed, don't leave bread or milk
on the table: it attracts the dead.

[sonnet 6] ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
339:Wir haben nie, nicht einen einzigen Tag, den reinen Raum vor uns, in den die Blumen unendlich aufgehn. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
340:Works of art are of an infinite loneliness and with nothing so little to be reached as with criticism. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
341:I think of you often, dear, and with such concentrated wishes that it really must help you in some way. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
342:Speaking of August Rodin: He raised his world above us in an immense arc, and made it a part of nature. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
343:think: the hero prolongs himself, even his falling
was only a pretext for being, his latest rebirth. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
344:Your doubt can become a good quality if you train it. It must become knowing, it must become criticism. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
345:(...) for our life is vast and can accommodate as much future as we are able to carry. (Letters on Life) ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
346:It is good to say it aloud: 'Nothing has happened.' Once again: 'Nothing has happened.' Does that help?" ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
347:It is good to say it out loud: 'Nothing happened.' Once more: 'Nothing happened.' Does that help at all? ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
348:It was not in me It came and went I wanted to hold it It was held by wine (I no longer know what it was) ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
349:Live a while in these books, learn from them what seems to you worth learning, but above all, love them. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
350:Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
351:What keeps you from... living your life as a painful and lovely day in the history of a great pregnancy? ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
352:Books inviting us to read, on the bookshelves stand.
Piers for bridges that will lead, into Fairyland. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
353:Everything in the world of things and animals is still filled with happening, which you can take part in. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
354:For even the best err in words when they are meant to mean most delicate and almost inexpressible things. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
355:For poems are not, as people think, simply emotions (one has emotions early enough)-they are experiences. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
356:This, a world seen no longer from the human point of view, but inside the angel, is perhaps my real task. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
357:Childhood is a land entirely independent of everything. The only land where kings exist. (Letters on Life) ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
358:Eines ist, die Geliebte zu singen. Ein anderes, wehe,
jenen verborgenen schuldigen Fluß-Gott des Bluts. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
359:I want to unfold.
I don’t want to stay folded anywhere,
because where I am folded, there I am a lie. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
360:Never has grief been possessed, never has love been learned, and what removes us in death is not revealed. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
361:Where otherwise words were, flow discoveries, freed all surprised out of the fruit’s flesh. RAINER MARIA RILKE ~ Gayle Brandeis,
362:Beauty is but the beginning of terror. We can barely endure it and are awed when it declines to destroy us. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
363:Be out of sync with your times for just one day, and you will see how much eternity you contain within you. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
364:Each person loses himself then for the other's sake and loses the other and many more who were yet to come. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
365: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,
366:Only those sadnesses are dangerous and bad which one carries about among people in order to drown them out. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
367:Our task is to take this earth so deeply and wholly into ourselves that it will resurrect within our being. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
368:and I circle ten thousand years long; And I still don't know if I'm a falcon, a storm, or an unfinished song ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
369:And if the world has ceased to hear you, say to the silent earth: I flow. To the rushing water, speak: I am. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
370:Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
371:Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
372:And I circle ten thousand years long; And I still don't know if I'm a falcon, a storm, or an unfinished song. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
373:Da schlug er jäh
die Hände vors Gesicht, wie er so kniete,
um nichts zu sehen mehr nach diesem Lächeln. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
374:In one creative thought a thousand forgotten nights of love revive, filling it with sublimity and exaltation. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
375:Perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while you were sad. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
376:Deeply I go down into myself. My god is Dark and like a webbing made of a hundred roots that drink in silence. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
377:It was not in me It came and went
I wanted to hold it It was held by wine
(I no longer know what it was) ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
378:Perform no miracles for me, But justify Thy laws to me Which, as the years pass by me. All soundlessly unfold. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
379:Success, which is something so simple in the end, is made up of thousands of things, we never fully know what. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
380:The inner, what is it: if not intensified sky hurled through with birds and deep with the winds of homecoming. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
381:And if the world has forgotten you,
say this to the stable earth: I run.
Tell the rushing water: I exist. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
382:Ask yourself in the most silent hour of your night: must I write [create]? Dig into yourself for a deep answer. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
383:Draw near to Nature. Then try like some first human being to say what you see and experience and love and lose. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
384:I could give you no advice but this: to go into yourself and to explore the depths where your life wells forth. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
385:I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
386:Then suddenly you’re left all alone
with your body that can’t love you
and your will that can’t save you. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
387:Nowhere, beloved, can world be but within us. Our life passes in transformation. And the external dwindles away. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
388:The flower bends when the wind wants it to, and you must become like that-that is, filled with deep #‎ trust . ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
389:There are no classes in life for beginners: right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
390:There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
391:This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
392:It is part of the nature of every definitive love that sooner or later it can reach the beloved only in infinity. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
393:O Stunden in der Kindheit,
da hinter den Figuren mehr als nur
Vergangnes war und vor uns nicht die Zukunft. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
394:Ich will wie ein Kind im Krankenzimmer
Einsam, mit heimlichem Lächeln, leise,
Leise – Tage und Träume bauen. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
395:It is good to be alone, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult should be one more reason to do it. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
396:Read the lines as if they were unknown to you, and you will feel in your inmost self how very much they are yours. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
397:Someday you will name me,
then gently place those burning
holy roses in my hair.

[Songs of Longing] ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
398:The Western poet Rainer Maria Rilke has said that our deepest fears are like dragons guarding our deepest treasure.12 ~ Sogyal Rinpoche,
399:Viva por algum tempo nesses livros, aprenda com eles o que lhe parecer digno de aprendizado, mas sobretudo os ame. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
400:But nature, exhausted, takes lovers back into herself
as if she couldn't accomplish that kind of vitality twice. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
401:Let everything happen to you
Beauty and terror
Just keep going
No feeling is final"
Enjoy every moment. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
402:Look, I am living. On what? Neither childhood nor future lessens . . . . Superabundant existence wells in my heart. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
403:Our age has built itself vast reservoirs of power / formless as the straining energy that it wrests from the earth. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
404:Perhaps everything terrible in us is, in its deepest being, something helpless needing our help. — Rainer Maria Rilke ~ Tsultrim Allione,
405:Winning does not tempt that man. This is how he grows: by being defeated, decisively, by constantly greater beings. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
406:Dig deep into your heart, where the answer spreads its roots in your being, and ask yourself solemnly, Must I write? ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
407:Wir bauen an dir mit zitternden Händen,
und wir türmen Atom auf Atom.
Aber wer kann dich vollenden,
du Dom. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
408:I believe that one is never more just than at those moments when one admires unreservedly and with absolute devotion. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
409:Kendisine söylenen bir şeyi, daima her şey olarak görüyor ve bunun karşısında keza mevcut öbür şeyleri unutuveriyordu ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
410:Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
411:We let go of one or the other always yet again: this joyfulness and that sadness. We still do not own either of them. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
412:For among these winters there is one so endlessly winter
that only by wintering through it will your heart survive. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
413:Perhaps then, some day far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
414:Where something becomes extremely difficult and unbearable, there we also stand already quite near its transformation. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
415:Basically, if it is good, one can't live to see it recognized: otherwise it's just half good and not reckless enough... ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
416:My God, if any of it could be shared! But would it "be" then, would it "be"? No, it "is" only at the price of solitude. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
417:Perhaps all dragons in our lives are really princesses just waiting to see us just once being beautiful and courageous. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
418:Somewhere there is an ancient enmity between our daily life and the great work. Help me in saying it, to understand it. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
419:Though he works and worries, the farmer
never reaches down to where the seed turns
into summer. The earth grants. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
420:What do the contours of your body mean, laid out like the lines on a hand, so that I no longer see them except as fate? ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
421:Düşünebilirdim ta en son kıyına kadar
bin katlı bir düşünceyle ben seni;
ve bir gülümseme süresince benim olurdun. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
422:Dying is strange and hard if it is not our death, but a death that takes us by storm, when we've ripened none within us. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
423:We must accept our reality as vastly as we possibly can; everything, even the unprecedented, must be possible within it. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
424:We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
425:winning does not tempt that man.
This is how he grows: by being defeated, decisively,
by constantly greater beings ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
426:It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
427:Look, we don't love like flowers with only one season behind us; when we love, a sap older than memory rises in our arms. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
428:Wie ein Käfer, auf den man tritt, so quillst du aus dir hinaus, und dein bißchen obere Härte und Anpassung ist ohne Sinn. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
429:As the arrow endures the string, and in the gathering momentum becomes more than itself. Because to stay is to be nowhere. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
430:Don't observe yourself too closely. Don't be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you; simply let it happen. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
431:How we squander our sorrows, gazing beyond them
into the sad wastes of duration,
to see if maybe they have a limit. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
432:I know of no other advice than this: Go within and scale the depths of your being from which your very life springs forth. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
433:Some day when I lose you, will you still be able to sleep, without me to whisper over you like a crown of linden branches? ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
434:They wished to flower, and flowering is being beautiful: but we wish to ripen, and that means being dark and taking pains. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
435:you are not too old and it is not too late to dive into your increasing depths where life calmly gives out it's own secret ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
436:Eskiden insan biliyordu (ya da belki de seziyordu) ki, meyvenin çekirdeğini taşıması gibi, ölümü kendi içinde taşımaktadır. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
437:I want to mirror your image in its fullest perfection. Never be blind or too old to uphold your weighty wavering reflection ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
438:De meeste gebeurtenissen zijn niet te verwoorden, ze voltrekken zich in een ruimte die nog nooit door een woord is betreden. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
439:Everything that makes more of you than you have ever been, even in your best hours, is right. Every intensification is good. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
440:How can I keep my soul in me, so that it doesn't touch your soul? How can I raise it high enough, past you, to other things? ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
441:It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
442:Just be sure that you observe carefully what wells up within you and place that above everything that you notice around you. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
443:Me pregunto si estoy lo suficientemente sereno y maduro como para iniciar el diario que te quiero llevar de vuelta a casa... ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
444:Those tasks that have been entrusted to us are difficult; almost everything serious is difficult; and everything is serious. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
445:Understand, I'll slip quietly
away from the noisy crowd
when I see the pale stars rising,
blooming, over the oaks. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
446:We make our way through Everything like thread passing through fabric, giving shape to images that we ourselves do not know. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
447:Be out of sync with your times for just one day, and you will see how much eternity you contain within you. (Letters on Life) ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
448:Embrace your solitude and love it. Endure the pain it causes, and try to sing out with it. For those near to you are distant. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
449:I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each should stand guard over the solitude of the other. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
450:In the room...they are inside the books. They move sometimes within the pages, like sleepers turning over between two dreams. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
451:Look, I am living. On what? Neither
childhood nor future
lessens . . . . Superabundant existence
wells in my heart. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
452:The creator must be a world for himself and must find everything in himself and in Nature, to whom his whole life is devoted. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
453:We lead our lives so poorly because we arrive in the present always unprepared, incapable, and too distracted for everything. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
454:Where something becomes extremely difficult and unbearable, there we also stand always already quite near its transformation. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
455:Fame, that public destruction of one in process of becoming, into whose building-ground the mob breaks, displacing his stones. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
456:Love consists in leaving the loved one space to be themselves while providing the security within which that self may flourish ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
457:Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
458:Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism; they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
459:Si tu vida cotidiana te parece pobre, no la acuses. Acúsate a ti mismo de no ser lo bastante poeta para percibir sus riquezas. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
460:This is what the things can teach us: to fall, patiently to trust our heaviness. Even a bird has to do that before he can fly. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
461:A work of art is good if it has sprung from necessity. In this nature of its origin lies the judgment of it: there is no other. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
462:Between hammers pounding,
the heart exists, like the tongue
between the teeth—which still,
however, does the praising. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
463:Embrace your solitude and love it. Endure the pain it causes, and try to sing out with it. For those near to you are distant... ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
464:À travers nous s'envolent
Les oiseaux en silence. O, moi qui veux grandir
Je regarde au dehors, et l'arbre en moi grandit. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
465:but those tasks that have been entrusted to us are difficult; almost everything serious is difficult; and everything is serious. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
466:For the creator must be a world for himself, and find everything within himself, and in Nature to which he has attached himself. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
467:Summer might come after. It does come. But it comes only to the patient ones, who are there as if eternity lay in front of them. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
468:Then draw near to nature. Pretend you are the very first man and then write what you see and experience, what you love and lose. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
469:But they are difficult things with which we have been charged; almost everything serious is difficult, and everything is serious. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
470:Co to było - ten płomień, ten niekończący się brak, to słodkie, głębokie, promieniujące uczucie zbierających się łez? Co to było? ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
471:Do not, do not, do not books for ever hammer at people like perpetual bells? When, between two books, silent sky appears: be glad ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
472:For we, when we feel, evaporate: oh, we
breathe ourselves out and away: from ember to ember,
yielding us fainter fragrance. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
473:Strange / to wish wishes no longer. / Strange / to see things / that seemed to / belong together / floating in every / direction. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
474:We are the bees of the invisible. We madly gather the honey of the visible to store it in the great golden hive of the invisible. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
475:Always trust yourself. If it turns out you are wrong, then that natural course of your inner life will lead you to other insights. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
476:it is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; the fact that a thing is difficult must be one more reason for our doing it. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
477:She was brought up in the reformed Protestant Church but left it at the age of seventeen in protest against its restrictive rules. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
478:Was soll ich mit meinem Munde? Mit meiner Nacht? Mit meinem Tag? Ich habe keine Geliebte, kein Haus, keine Stelle auf der ich lebe ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
479:We are the bees of the invisible. We gather the honey of the visible, and store it in the great golden honeycomb of the invisible. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
480:Yet, no matter how deeply I go down into myself, my God is dark, and like a webbing made of a hundred roots that drink in silence. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
481:You needed your whole self; and so you went and broke yourself, out of its grip, in pieces,painfully, because your need was great. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
482:Your preparation for the real world is not in the answers you’ve learned, but in the questions you’ve learned how to ask yourself. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
483:Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke once wrote that “the future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens. ~ Satya Nadella,
484:Sana daha önce söylemiş miydim? Görmeyi öğreniyorum. Evet, yeni başladım. Henüz pek o kadar iyi değil ama elimden geleni yapacağım. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
485:Doch wie ich mich auch in mich selber neige: Mein Gott ist dunkel und wie ein Gewebe von hundert Wurzeln, welche schweigsam trinken. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
486:Have patience with everything unresolved in you heart and try to love the questions themselves. It is possible to live and not know. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
487:I come home from the soaring
In which I lost myself.
I was song, and the refrain which is God
Is still roaring in my ears. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
488:Your life will no doubt find its own paths. That they be good ones, and rich and expansive, that I wish for you more than I can say. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
489:All we can offer where we love is this:
to loose each other; for to hold each other
comes easy to us and requires no learning. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
490:And you should not let yourself be confused in your solitude by the fact that there is something in you that wants to move out of it. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
491:Não há nada que toque menos uma obra de arte do que palavras de crítica: elas não passam de mal-entendidos mais ou menos afortunados. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
492:To be loved means to be consumed. To love is to give light with inexhaustible oil. To be loved is to pass away, to love is to endure. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
493:Und man hat niemand und nichts und faehrt in der Welt herum mit einem Koffer und mit einer Bücherkiste und eigentlich ohne Neugierde. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
494:Yet everything that touches us, me and you, takes us together like a violin's bow, which draws one voice out of two separate strings. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
495:And you suddenly know: It was here! You pull yourself together, and there stands an irrevocable year of anguish and vision and prayer. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
496:Everything that has been wrestled from doubt
I welcome-the mouths that burst open after
long knowledge of what it is to be mute. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
497:I am a house gutted by fire where only the guilty sometimes sleep before the punishment that devours them hounds them out in the open. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
498:like a tree which does not hurry the flow of its sap and stands at ease in the spring gales without fearing that no summer may follow. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
499:Poetic power is great, strong as a primitive instinct; it has its own unyielding rhythms in itself and breaks out as out of mountains. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
500:We, hurt by ourselves, keen
to be hurters and keen
to be hurt back deep inside.
We, like weapons laid
beside anger asleep. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
501:... adına kader dediğimiz şeyin dışarıdan insanların içine girmediği, insanların içinden dışarı çıktığı da yavaş yavaş farkedilecektir. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
502:I am like a child who awakes   At the light, so safe and secureFree from night's fears when dawn breaks,  In Thee I am ever secure. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
503:If the heart longs for nothing but to be new and unlimited, the world is instantly the same as on the day of its creation and infinite. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
504:In spite of all the farmer's work and worry, he can't reach down to where the seed is slowly transmuted into summer. The earth bestows. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
505:I don't want to talk to anyone, lest I squander your words' echo, which ripples like a shine over mine and lends their sound a richness. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
506:To be in circumstances that are working upon us, that from time to time place us in front of great natural Things - that is all we need. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
507:You, darkness, of whom I am born- I love you more than the flame that limits the world to the circle it illumines and excludes the rest. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
508:A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
509:Take your well-disciplined strengths, stretch them between the two great opposing poles, because inside human beings is where God learns. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
510:Wir haben, wo wir uns lieben, ja nur dies: einander lassen; denn daß wir uns halten, das fällt uns leicht und ist nicht erst zu erlernen. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
511:You are not too old
and it is not too late
to dive into your increasing depths
where life calmly gives out
its own secret. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
512:Do not, do not, do not books for ever
hammer at people like perpetual bells?
When, between two books, silent sky appears: be glad. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
513:I would like to beg you, dear Sir, as well as I can, to have patience with everything that is unsolved in your heart and to try to cherish ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
514:The only sadnesses that are dangerous and unhealthy are the ones that we carry around in public in order to drown them out the with noise. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
515: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,
516:Your life will still find its own paths from there, and that they may be good, rich, and wide is what I wish for you, more than I can say. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
517:Earth, my dearest, oh believe me, you no longer need your springtimes to win me over...Unspeakably, I have belonged to you, from the flush. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
518:Far from the comings and goings,
her heart resembled a lighted sign,
an ancient Balance or Lyre--
names gone too long to remember. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
519:All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
520:But your solitude will be your home and haven even in the midst of very strange conditions, and from there you will discover all your paths. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
521:I live my life in widening circles
that reach out across the world.
I may not complete this last one
but I give myself to it. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
522: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,
523:If, however, he is the most perfect one, would not what is less than perfect precede him, so that he can choose himself from great abundance? ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
524:If the angel deigns to come, it will be because you have convinced him, not by your tears, but by your humble resolve to be always beginning. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
525:More unsayable than all other things are works of art, those mysterious existences, whose life endures beside our own small, transitory life. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
526:most people come to know only one corner of their room, one spot near the window, one narrow strip on which they keep walking back and forth. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
527:Your solitude will expand and become a place where you can live in the twilight, where the noise of other people passes, far in the distance. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
528:If no one else, the dying must notice how unreal, how full of pretense, is all that we accomplish here, where nothing is allowed to be itself. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
529:If your everyday life seems poor, don't blame it; blame yourself; admit to yourself that you are not enough of a poet to call forth its riches ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
530:Take your practiced powers and stretch them out until they span the chasm between contradictions ... for the god wants to know himself in you. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
531:What we fight with is so small, and when we win, it makes us small. What we want is to be defeated, decisively, by successively greater things ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
532:You must think that something is happening upon you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand; it will not let you fall. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
533:And you suddenly know: It was here!
You pull yourself together, and there
stands an irrevocable year
of anguish and vision and prayer. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
534:Death is our friend, precisely because it brings us into absolute and passionate presence with all that is here, that is natural, that is love. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
535:The natural growth of your inner life will lead you slowly and with time to other insights... Everything is a gestation and then bringing forth. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
536:What is the deepest loss that you have suffered? If drinking is bitter, change yourself to wine. —from Sonnets to Orpheus II, 29 Rainer Maria Rilke ~ Kate Bernheimer,
537:Never forget that solitude is my lot ... I implore those who love me to love my solitude."

(Letter to Mimi Romanelli, May 11, 1910) ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
538:We often decide in advance how we will respond to something rather than wait for the experience to play itself out according to its proper speed. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
539:Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
540:Have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
541:Love the questions themselves...Live the questions now and have confidence that someday far into the future, [I will live my] way into the answer. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
542:which so incorruptibly reduced a reality to its color content that it resumed a new existence in a beyond of color, without any previous memories. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
543:...all strength we give away comes over us again, experienced and altered. Thus it is in prayer. And what is there, truly done, that is not prayer? ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
544:Das ist die Sehnsucht: wohnen im Gewoge und keine Heimat haben in der Zeit. Und das sind Wünsche: leise Dialoge täglicher Stunden mit der Ewigkeit. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
545:But this press of time—take it as a little thing next to what endures. All this hurrying soon will be over. Only when we tarry do we touch the holy. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
546:In the night, I wish to speak with the angel to find out if she recognizes my eyes, if she will ask me: do you see Eden? And I’ll reply: Eden burns. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
547:Your inmost happening is worth your whole love, that is what you must somehow work at, and not lose too much time and too much courage in explaining ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
548:A billion stars go spinning through the night, / glittering above your head, / But in you is the presence that will be / when all the stars are dead. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
549:…Ah, only plunged toward you
does my face cease being on display, grows
into you and twines on darkly, endlessly,
into your sheltered heart… ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
550:But 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,
551:Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
552:Ne-am născut provizoriu, undeva, apoi încetul cu încetul conştientizăm în noi originea noastră, şi aşa renaştem mereu, de fiecare dată mai definitiv. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
553:No one would dream of expecting a single individual to be "happy"—once someone is married, however, everyone is very astonished when he is not happy! ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
554:Works of art are of an infinite solitude, and no means of approach is so useless as criticism. Only love can touch and hold them and be fair to them. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
555:To be loved means to be ablaze. To love is: to cast a light with inexhaustible oil. To be loved is to pass away; to love is to last. (Letters on Life) ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
556:Whoever you are, go out into the evening, leaving your room, of which you know every bit; your house is the last before the infinite, whoever you are. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
557:Why don't you think of [God] as the one who is coming, who has been approaching from all eternity... the ultimate fruit of a tree whose leaves we are. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
558:Besser vielleicht, du wärest in der Dunkelheit geblieben und dein unabgegrenztes Herz hätte versucht, all des Ununterscheidbaren schweres Herz zu sein. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
559:But perhaps these are the very hours during which solitude grows; for its growing is painful as the growing of boys and sad as the beginning of spring. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
560:Liebe ist schwer. Liebhaben von Mensch zu Mensch: das ist vielleicht das Schwerste, was uns aufgegeben ist, das Äußerste, die letzte Probe und Prüfung. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
561:Oh longing for places that were not Cherished enough in that fleeting hour How I long to make good from afar The forgotten gesture, the additional act. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
562:Only those are in the right who keep an open door for both good and ill, so that each may come but also leave according to its needs. (Letters on Life) ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
563: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,
564:Ultimately nobody can help anyone else in life; one has this recurring experience in every conflict and confusion: that one is alone. (Letters on Life) ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
565:A billion stars go spinning through the night,
glittering above your head,
But in you is the presence that will be
when all the stars are dead. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
566:Beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we are still just able to endure, and we are so awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
567:I always feel: when one person is indebted to another for something very special, that indebtedness should remain a secret between just the two of them. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
568:If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
569:Do not search now for the answers which cannot be given you because you could not live them. It is a matter of living everything. Live the questions now. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
570:Every intensification is good, if it is in your entire blood, if it isn't intoxication or muddiness, but joy which you can see into, clear to the bottom. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
571:It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
572:Solitude is nothing that one can choose or retrain from. We are solitary. We can delude ourselves about this and act as if it were not true. That is all. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
573:The necessary thing is after all but this; solitude, great inner solitude. Going into oneself for hours meeting no one - this one must be able to attain. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
574:There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
575:Works of art are infinitely solitary and nothing is less likely to reach them than criticism. Only love can grasp them and hold them and do them justice. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
576:I have never been aware before how many faces there are. There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
577:Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
578:If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
579:I offer resistance, although I know that my heart has already been ripped out and I could not go on living even if my torturers were to leave me alone now. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
580:Is it possible that despite our inventions and progress, despite our culture, religion and knowledge of the world, we have remained on the surface of life? ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
581:It is necessary - and toward this point our development will move, little by little - that nothing alien happen to us, but only what has long been our own. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
582:O Lord, give each person his own personal death. / A thing that moves out of the same life he lived, / In which he had love, and intelligence, and trouble. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
583:If the Angel deigns to appear, it will be because you have convinced him, not by tears but by your humble resolve to be always beginning — to be a Beginner! ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
584:It seems to me that the only way one can be helpful is to extend one's hand to someone else involuntarily, and without ever knowing how useful this will be. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
585:That is the principal thing-not to remain with the dream, with the intention, with the being-in-the-mood, but always forcibly to convert it all into things. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
586:Works of art are of an infinite loneliness and with nothing so little to be reached as with criticism. Only love can grasp and hold and be just toward them. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
587:And when suddenly the god stopped her and, with anguish in his cry, uttered the words: ‘He has turned round’ – she comprehended nothing and said softly: ‘Who? ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
588:Do you remember how life yearned out of childhood toward the "great thing?" I see that it is now yearning forth beyond the great thing toward the greater one. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
589:For I did not yet understand fame, this public demolition of something still forming, onto whose construction site the crowd breaks in, scattering its stones. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
590:Music: breathing of statues. Perhaps: silence of paintings. You language where all language ends. You time standing vertically on the motion of mortal hearts. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
591:My art is representational by choice....if the art of painting is to survive, it must describe and express people, their lives and times. It must communicate. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
592:. . . denn da ist keine Stelle, die dich nicht sieht. Du musst dein Leben andern. (... for there is no place that does not see you. You must change your life.) ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
593:I believe that that love remains strong and intense in your memory because it was your first deep aloneness and the first inner work that you did on your life. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
594:Things are not all as graspable and sayable as on the whole we are led to believe; most events are unsayable. occur in a space that no word has ever penetrated ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
595:To all that is used-up, and to all the muffled and dumb creatures in the world's full reserve, the unsayable sums, joyfully add yourself, and cancel the count. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
596:Whoever you are, go out into the evening,
leaving your room, of which you know every bit;
your house is the last before the infinite,
whoever you are. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
597:You are also the physician who must watch over yourself. But in the course of every illness there are many days in which the physician can do nothing but wait. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
598:And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
599:Çocukluğum için niyazda bulundum, ve işte çocukluğum geri geldi, ve hissediyorum ki çocukluk, evvelden nasılsa yine öyle ağır ve hiç de fayda etmemiş yaşlanmak. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
600:it is obvious that most people come to know only one corner of their room, one spot near the window, one narrow strip on which they keep walking back and forth. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
601:Lauschende Wolke über dem Wald.
Wie wir sie lieben lernten,
seit wir wissen, wie wunderbald
sie als weckender Regen prallt
an die träumenden Ernten. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
602:There are proofs of Your existence. I had forgotten them all, and never demanded any either, for what an overwhelming obligation would come with this certainty. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
603:I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
604:Leave to your opinions their own quiet undisturbed development, which, like all progress, must come from deep within and cannot be pressed or hurried by anything. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
605:A birdsong can even, for a moment, make the whole world into a sky within us, because we feel that the bird does not distinguish between its heart and the world's. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
606:Piously we produce our images of you
till they stand around you like a thousand walls.
And when our hearts would simply open,
our fervent hands hide you. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
607:Surely all art is the result of having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, to where no one can go any further. RAINER MARIA RILKE ~ Chaim Potok,
608:The ultimate intuitions and insights will only approach one who lives in his work and remains there, and whoever considers them from afar gains no power over them. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
609:Und wir: Zuschauer, immer, überall,
dem allen zugewandt und nie hinaus!
Uns überfüllts. Wir ordnens. Es zerfällt.
Wir ordnens wieder und zerfallen selbst. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
610:For bel.i.eve me, the more one is, the richer is all one experiences. And whoever wants to have deep love in his life must collect and save for it and gather honey. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
611:That is at bottom the only courage that is demanded of us: to have courage for the most strange, the most singular, and the most inexplicable that we may encounter. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
612:This is in the end the only kind of courage that is required of us: the courage to face the strangest, most unusual, most inexplicable experiences that can meet us. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
613:Animals see the unobstructed world with their whole eyes. But our eyes, turned back upon themselves, encircle and seek to snare the world, setting traps for freedom. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
614:Let your judgements have their own quiet, undisturbed development, which must, like all progress, come from deep within, and cannot in any way be pressed or hurried. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
615:The more one is, the more abundant is everything one experiences. If you want to have a deep love in your life, you must save up for it and collect and gather honey. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
616:What is necessary, after all, is only this: solitude, vast inner solitude. To walk inside yourself and meet no one for hours—that is what you must be able to attain. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
617:And more than that: you are also the doctor responsible for looking after himself. But with all illnesses there are many days when the doctor can do nothing but wait. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
618:Come here into the candlelight. I’m not afraid to
look at the dead. For when the dead come
they have as much right to sojourn
in our gaze as any other thing. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
619:Don't you see how everything that happens is always a beginning again, and could it not be His beginning, given that beginnings are in themselves always so beautiful? ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
620:If your everyday life appears to be unworthy subject matter, do not complain to life. Complain to yourself, Lament that you are not poet enough to call up its wealth. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
621:My old furniture is rotting in a barn where I was permitted to store it, and as for myself, dear God, I don't have a roof over my head and it is raining into my eyes. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
622:And when suddenly
the god stopped her and, with anguish in his cry,
uttered the words: ‘He has turned round’ –
she comprehended nothing and said softly: ‘Who? ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
623:Be-and yet know the great void where all things begin, the infinite source of your own most intense vibration, so that, this once, you may give it your perfect assent. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
624:"Solitude is truly an interior affair, and to realize this insight and to live accordingly amounts to the best and most helpful form of progress." ~ Rainer Maria Rilke (Letter, March 1907),
625:That is fundamentally the only courage which is demanded of us: to be brave in the face of the strangest, most singular and most inexplicable things that can befall us ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
626:He does not always remain bent over the pages; he often leans back and closes his eyes over a line he has been reading again, and its meaning spreads through his blood. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
627:I am circling around God, around the ancient tower, and I have been circling for a thousand years, and I still don't know if I am a falcon, or a storm, or a great song. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
628:They, who passed away long ago, still exist in us, as predisposition, as burden upon our fate, as murmuring blood, and as gesture that rises up from the depths of time. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
629:I prayed to rediscover my childhood, and it has come back, and I feel that it is just as difficult as it used to be, and that growing older has served no purpose at all. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
630:It is true that many young people who do not love rightly, who simply surrender themselves and leave no room for aloneness, experience the depressing feeling of failure. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
631:Life and death: they are one, at core entwined. Who understands himself from his own strain presses himself into a drop of wine and throws himself into the purest flame. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
632:Everyone once, once only. Just once and no more. And we also once. Never again. But this having been once, although only once, to have been of the earth, seems irrevocable. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
633:I never read anything concerning my work. I feel that criticism is a letter to the public which the author, since it is not directed to him, does not have to open and read. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
634:Now we wake up with our memory
and fix our gazes on that which was;
whispering sweetness, which once coursed through us,
sits silently beside us with loosened hair ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
635:One must never despair upon losing something, whether it’s an individual or an experience of joy or happiness; everything returns even more magnificently. (Letters on Life) ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
636:As people used to be wrong about the motion of the sun, so they are still wrong about the motion of the future. The future stands still, it is we who move in infinite space. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
637:He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
638:His vision, from the constantly passing bars, has grown so weary that it cannot hold anything else. It seems to him there are a thousand bars; and behind the bars, no world. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
639:Kadının teslimiyeti, hudutsuz olmak gayesini güder : onun saadetidir bu. Ama kadının aşkındaki sonsuz ıstırap hep şu olmuştur : kendisinden bu teslimiyeti azaltması istenir. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
640:Why should you want to exclude from your life all unsettling, all pain, all depression of spirit, when you don’t know what work it is these states are performing within you? ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
641:Above all marriage is a new task and a new seriousness—a new challenge and a question regarding the strength and kindness of each participant and a new great danger for both. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
642:And do not change. Do not divert your love from visible things. But go on loving what is good, simple and ordinary; animals and things and flowers, and keep the balance true. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
643:Be patient with all that is unsolved in your life. Learn to love the questions themselves, until some distant day, without your knowing, you will have lived into the answers. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
644: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, already lived, and held like a legend, and understood. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
645:Let your beauty manifest itself without talking and calculation.​ You are silent. It says for you: I am. And comes in meaning thousandfold​, comes at long last over everyone. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
646:One of the most difficult tests for the creator: he must always remain unconscious, unaware of his best virtues, if he doesn't want to rob them of their candor and innocence. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
647:Wenn der Alltag dir arm erscheint, klage ihn nicht an – klage dich an, daß du nicht stark genug bist, seine Reichtümer zu rufen, denn für den Schaffenden gibt es keine Armut. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
648:You are the partner of her loneliness, the unspeaking center of her monologues. With each disclosure you encompass more and she stretches beyond what limits her, to hold you. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
649:You, still the squanderers of the empty hall —
when the twilight comes, wide as woods…
And the chandelier, like a sixteen-pointer, vaults
where nothing can set foot. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
650:For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so, because it serenely disdains to destroy us. Every angel is terrible. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
651:God... sat down for a moment when the dog was finished in order to watch it... and to know that it was good, that nothing was lacking, that it could not have been made better. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
652:But learning-time is always a long, secluded time, and so loving, for a long while ahead and far on into life, is-solitude, intensified and deepened loneness for him who loves. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
653:I don’t like to write letters while I am traveling, because for letter writing I need more than the most necessary tools: some silence and solitude and a not too familiar hour. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
654:Take the emptiness you hold in your arms
And scatter it into the open spaces we breathe.
Maybe the birds will feel how the air is thinner,
And fly with more affection. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
655:Be patient with all that is uncertain in your heart...do not search for answers, which will not be given: you will not be able to live them, and its importat to live everything. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
656:Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Do not despair if the answers don't come immediately. Some answers are only revealed with the passage of time. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
657:Look, lovers: almost separately they come towards us through the flowery grass and slowly; parting's so far from thought of, they indulge the extravagance of walking unembraced. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
658:O stars, Isn’t it from you that the lover’s desire for the face
Of his beloved arises? Doesn’t his secret insight
Into her pure features come from the pure constellations? ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
659:The essence of love lies not in communion, but in the fact that each partner forces the other to become something, something infinitely great, the extreme limit of his strength. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
660:She followed slowly, taking a long time, As though there were some obstacles in the way; And yet: as though, once it was overcome, She would be beyond all walking, and would fly. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
661:Children are still the way you were as a child, sad and happy in just the same way-and if you think of your childhood, you once again live among them, among the solitary children. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
662:The wish to improve another person’s situation presupposes a level of insight into his conditions that even a poet does not possess with regard to a character he himself invented. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
663:A happy poet who writes about his window and the glass doors of his bookcases that reflect pensively a beloved, lonely vastness. This is the poet I would have liked to become (...) ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
664:And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far into the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
665:Children are still the way you were as a child, sad and happy in just the same way--and if you think of your childhood, you once again live among them, among the solitary children. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
666:He does not always remain bent over the
pages; he often leans back and closes
his eyes over a line he has been reading
again, and its meaning spreads through
his blood. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
667:All that we have gained, the machine threatens-
once a tool assumes a force of its own.
Instead of letting us get used to mastery, for buildings more severe it cuts the stone. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
668:Our being is continually undergoing and entering upon changes. ... We must, strictly speaking, at every moment give each other up and let each other go and not hold each other back. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
669:The Letters to a young poet illustrate perfectly the kindliness, the complexity, and at the same time the impersonality and remoteness of Rilke’s manner with unknown correspondents. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
670:Things are not as easily understood nor as expressible as people usually would like us to believe. Most happenings are beyond expression; they exist where a word has never intruded. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
671:Destiny itself is like a wonderful wide tapestry in which every thread is guided by an unspeakable tender hand, placed beside another thread and held and carried by a hundred others. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
672:For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
673:I don’t like to
write letters while I am traveling, because for letter writing I need more than the
most necessary tools: some silence and solitude and a not too familiar hour. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
674:Wie hab ich das gefühlt was Abschied heißt.
Wie weiß ichs noch: ein dunkles unverwundnes
grausames etwas, das ein Schönverbundnes
noch einmal zeigt und hinhält und zerreißt. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
675:But because truly being here is so much; because everything here apparently needs us, this fleeting world, which in some strange way keeps calling to us. Us, the most fleeting of all. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
676: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 world, that’s because you’re not poet enough to wake its soul up. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
677:Want the change. Be inspired by the flame
where everything shines as it disappears.
The artist, when sketching, loves nothing so much
as the curve of a body as it turns away. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
678:You know that I am not one of those individuals who neglect their body in order to turn it into an offering for their soul; my soul would not at all have appreciated such a sacrifice. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
679:das flüchtet... und sein Bangen ist groß,
daß ihr es selber / wie schlank es entschwindet/
nach vielem Traurigsein erst wiederfindet,
noch immer schreckhaft, warm und atemlos. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
680:For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror
which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so,
because it serenely disdains to destroy us.
Every angel is terrible. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
681:Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms, like books written in a foreign tongue...Live the questions. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
682:No waiting the beyond, no peering toward it,
but longing to degrade not even death;
we shall learn earthliness, and serve its ends,
to feel its hands about us like a friend's. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
683:Death is our friend precisely because it brings us into absolute and passionate presence with all that is here, that is natural, that is love. Death stands before eternity and says YES. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
684:She followed slowly and she needed time,
as though some long ascent were not yet by;
and yet: as though, when she had ceased to climb,
she would no longer merely walk, but fly. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
685:And in the man too there is motherhood, it seems to me, physical and mental; his engendering is also a kind of birthing, and it is birthing when he creates out of his innermost fullness. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
686:I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
687:If you are asked to achieve an ending somehow, this also means that you are receiving an order to begin anew; a new beginning is always possible - who should refuse it? (Letters on Life) ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
688: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, already lived,
and held like a legend, and understood. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
689:Isn’t it time that, loving, we freed ourselves
from the beloved, and, trembling, endured:
as the arrow endures the bow, so as to be,
in its flight, something more than itself? ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
690:Let your beauty manifest itself
without talking and calculation.​
You are silent. It says for you: I am.
And comes in meaning thousandfold​,
comes at long last over everyone. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
691:Earth, is not this what you will: in us to rise up invisible? Is it, O Earth, not your dream once to be wholly invisible? Earth! Invisible! What, if not change, is your desperate mission? ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
692:She followed slowly, taking a long time,
As though there were some obstacles in the way;
And yet: as though, once it was overcome,
She would be beyond all walking, and would fly. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
693:So whoever loves must try to act as if he had a great work: he must be much alone and go into himself and collect himself and hold fast to himself; he must work; he must become something! ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
694:A merging of two people is an impossibility, and where it seems to exist, it is a hemming-in, a mutual consent that robs one party or both parties of their fullest freedom and development. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
695:Fate loves to invent patterns and designs. Its difficulty lies in complexity. But life itself is difficult because of its simplicity. It has only a few things of a grandeur not fit for us. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
696:Most people have turned their solutions toward what is easy and toward the easiest side of the easy; but it is clear that we must trust in what is difficult; everything alive trusts in it. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
697:Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are really princesses, waitiing for us to be handsome and brave; and all the terrifying things are really helpless things, waiting for us to help them. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
698:Right in the difficult we must have our joys, our happiness, our dreams: there against the depth of this background, they stand out, there for the first time we see how beautiful they are. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
699:Ich habe viele Brüder in Sutanen im Süden, wo in Klöstern Lorbeer steht. Ich weiß, wie menschlich sie Madonnen planen, und träume oft von jungen Tizianen, durch die der Gott in Gluten geht. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
700:Isn't it time that, in love, we freed ourselves
from the loved one and, trembling, endured:
as the arrow endures the string, collecting itself
to be more than itself as it shoots? ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
701:of all the disfigured and
decaying Things, which, after all, are essentially nothing more than accidental
remains from another time and from a life that is not and should not be ours. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
702:The artist's experience lies so unbelievably close to the sexual, to its pain and its pleasure, that the two phenomena are really just different forms of one and the same longing and bliss. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
703:And yet they are in us, those who have long since passed away, as natural disposition, as burden on our destiny, as blood that throbs, and as gesture that rises up out of the depths of time. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
704:Let me put aside every desire, so that my heart grows used to its farthest spaces. Better that it live fully aware, in the terror of its stars, than as if protected, soothed by what is near. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
705:To be an artist means: not to reckon and count; to ripen like the tree which does not force its sap and stands confident in the storms of Spring without fear lest no Summer might come after. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
706:All who seek you
test you.
And those who find you
bind you to image and gesture.
I would rather sense you
as the earth senses you.
In my ripening
ripens what you are. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
707:Finally - we know this - life’s little wisdom is to wait (but to wait in the proper, pure state of mind), and the great grace that is bestowed on us in return is to survive. (Letters on Life) ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
708:Bugün bunu beklememiştim; çok tabii, çok basit bir işmiş gibi cesaretle sokağa çıkmıştım. Ama yine de bir şey vardı işte, beni bir kağıt gibi alıp buruşturan ve atan, müthiş bir şey vardı işte ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
709:Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart; confess to yourself you would have to die if you were forbidden to write. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
710:How much there is to suffer. When was time enough
to pay attention to our lighter emotions?
And still I recognize, better than most others
who will be resurrected, what blessedness is. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
711:It wasn't his, it wasn't my fault, we both had nothing except patience, but Death has none. I saw him come (how meanly!) and I watched him as he took and took: none of it I could claim as mine. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
712:Believe in a love that is preserved for you like a heritage, and trust that in this love there is a strength and a blessing which you are not bound to leave behind you though you may travel far! ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
713:Comfort me from wherever you are–alone, we are quickly worn out; if I place my head on the road, let it seem softened by you. Could it be that even from afar we offer each other a gentle breath? ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
714:If, when you wake up in the morning, you can think of nothing but writing then you are a writer”

"Se alla mattina quando ti alzi non pensi altro che allo scrivere allora sei uno scrittore ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
715:Mädchen, Dichter sind, die von euch lernen
das zu sagen, was ihr einsam seid;
und sie lernen leben an euch Fernen,
wie die Abende an großen Sternen
sich gewöhnen an die Ewigkeit. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
716:All things exist in order to become images for us in some sense. And this does not cause them any harm: for while they express us ever more clearly, our soul bows down to them to the same degree. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
717:As coisas estão longe de ser todas tão tangíveis e dizíveis quanto se nos pretenderia fazer crer; a maior parte dos acontecimentos é inexprimível e ocorre num espaço em que nenhuma palavra pisou. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
718:She who reconciles the ill-matched threads Of her life, and weaves them gratefully Into a single cloth – It’s she who drives the loudmouths from the hall And clears it for a different celebration. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
719:Suddenly I'm as if cast out,
and this solitude surrounds me
as something vast and unbounded,
when my feeling, standing on the hills
of my breasts, cries out for wings
or for an end. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
720:Be attentive to what is arising within you, and place that above everything else...What is happening in your innermost self is worthy of your entire love; somehow you must find a way to work at it. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
721:Be forever dead in Eurydice-more gladly arise into the seamless life proclaimed in your song. Here, in the realm of decline, among momentary days, be the crystal cup that shattered even as it rang. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
722:(...) each time we cast our view toward distances that have not yet been touched, we transform not only the present moment and the one following but also alter the past within us. (Letters on Life) ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
723:in later years it occasionally happened that I awoke in the night and the stars were so real and advanced so convincingly that I could not understand how people managed to lose so much of the world ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
724:The quieter we are, the more patient and open we are in our sadnesses, the more deeply and serenely the new presence can enter us, and the more we can make it our own, the more it becomes our fate. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
725:Most people do not know at all how beautiful the world is and how much magnificence is revealed in the tiniest things, in some flower, in a stone, in tree bark, or in a birch leaf. (Letters on Life) ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
726:Often a star was waiting for you to notice it. A wave rolled toward you out of the distant path, or as you walked under an open window, a violin yielded itself to your hearing. All this was mission. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
727:Rast. Gast sein einmal. Nicht immer selbst seine Wünsche bewirten mit kärglicher Kost. Nicht immer feindlich nach allem fassen, einmal sich alles geschehen lassen und wissen: was geschieht, ist gut. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
728:Society has been able to create refuges of every sort, for since it preferred to take love-life as an amusement, it also had to give it an easy form, cheap, safe, and sure, as public amusements are. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
729:Wanting to change, to improve, a person's situation means offering him, for difficulties in which he is practiced and experienced, other difficulties that will find him perhaps even more bewildered. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
730:He who does not at some time, with definite determination consent to the terribleness of life, or even exalt in it, never takes possession of the inexpressible fullness of the power of our existence. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
731:It is quite rare to encounter a truly creative and productive person who resides in his own stillness or simply in the midst of his melody, close to the honest beating of his heart! (Letters on Life) ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
732:What goes on in your innermost being is worth all your love, this is what you must work on however you can and not waste too much time and too much energy on clarifying your attitude to other people. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
733:Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force its sap and stands confidence in the storms of spring without fear that after them may come no summer ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
734:If it were possible for us to see further than our knowledge extends and out a little over the outworks of our surmising, perhaps we should then bear our sorrows with greater confidence than our joys. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
735:Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force its sap and stands confidence in the storms of spring without fear that after them may come no summer. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
736:Huge lemons, cut in slices, would sink like setting suns into the dusky sea, softly illuminating it with their radiating membranes, and its clear, smooth surface aquiver from the rising bitter essence. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
737:We must embrace struggle. Every living thing conforms to it. Everything in nature grows and struggles in its own way, establishing its own identity, insisting on it at all cost, against all resistance. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
738:Because he loves only as man, not as human being, there is in his sexual feelings something narrow, seemingly wild, malicious, temporal, finite, which weakens his art and makes it equivocal and dubious. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
739:But you, divine poet, you sang on till the end as the swarm of rejected maenads attacked you, shrieking, you overpowered their noise with harmony, and from pure destruction arose your transfigured song. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
740:Find in yourself enough patience to endure and enough simplicity to have faith. Gain more confidence in what is difficult. For the rest, let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
741:Girls, there are poets who learn from you to say, what you, in your aloneness, are; and they learn through you to live distantness, as the evenings through the great stars become accustomed to eternity. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
742:If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches, for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
743:If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches: for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
744:If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
745:Und dasTotsein ist mu« hsam und voller Nachholn, dass man allm a« hlich ein wenig Ewigkeit spu« rt. And being dead is hard work and full of retrieval before one can gradually feel a trace of eternity. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
746:just like the moon, life surely has a side that is perpetually turned away from us and which is not its opposite but adds to its perfection and completeness, to the truly intact and full sphere of being. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
747:Look, the trees are; the houses
we live in still stand. We alone
go past them like an exchange of vapors.
And things conspire to tell us nothing, half
in shame, perhaps, half in unspoken hope. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
748:most events are unutterable, consummating themselves in a sphere where word has never trod, and more unutterable than them all are works of art, whose life endures by the side of our own that passes away. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
749:Nothing strange should befall us, but only that which has long belonged to us. We will gradually learn to realize that that which we call destiny goes forth from within people, not from without into them. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
750:Perhaps all the dragons of your life are princesses, who are only waiting for us to show a little beauty and courage. Perhaps at the very bottom every horror is something helpless, that wants help from us ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
751:¿Piensas de veras que tanto le habría estremecido tu leve paso, que huye como brisa de primavera?
Si, asustasteis su corazón: pero más viejos terrores se desencadenaron en él al choque de ese contacto. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
752:Seldom have you smiled so tenderly, mothers. How could he help loving what smiled at him. Before you he loved it, since, while you carried him, it was dissolved in the waters, that render the embryo light. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
753:We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it.”


Rainer Maria Rilke, Translations from the Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
754:el destino por sí mismo es como una tela amplia y maravillosa, en la cual cada hebra es guiada por una mano infinitamente tierna; permanece junto a otra hebra, y es contenida y apoyada por cientos de otras. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
755:Fame is nothing but the sum of all the misunderstandings that cluster around a new name…Wherever a human achievement becomes truly great, it seeks to hide its face in the lap of general, nameless greatness. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
756:In the deepest hour of the night, confess to yourself that you would die if you were forbidden to write. And look deep into your heart where it spreads its roots, the answer, and ask yourself, must I write? ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
757:Just as the creative artist is not allowed to choose, neither is he permitted to turn his back on anything: a single refusal, and he is cast out of the state of grace and becomes sinful all the way through. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
758:Once for each thing. Just once; no more. And we too,
just once. And never again. But to have been
this once, completely, even if only once:
to have been at one with the earth, seems beyond undoing. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
759:Earth, my dearest, I will. Oh believe me, you no longer need your springtimes to win me over - one of them, ah, even one, is already too much for my blood. Unspeakably I have belonged to you, from the first. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
760:Do continue to believe that with your feeling and with your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate in yourself this belief, the more will reality and world go forth from it. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
761:So much it availed,
you coming to him at night; his destiny, tall in its cloak, stepped back
behind the cupboard, and his unquiet future, easily shifting,
fitted itself into the folds of the curtain. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
762:Always trust yourself and your own feelings, as opposed to arguments and discussions. If it turns out that you are wrong, then the natural growth of your inner life will eventually guide you to other insights. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
763:It wasn't his, it wasn't my fault,
we both had nothing except patience,
but Death has none.
I saw him come (how meanly!)
and I watched him as he took and took:
none of it I could claim as mine. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
764:Once for each thing. Just once; no more. And we too,
just once. And never again. But to have been
this once, completely, even if only once:
to have been at one with the earth, seems beyond undoing. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
765:She who reconciles the ill-matched threads
Of her life, and weaves them gratefully
Into a single cloth –
It’s she who drives the loudmouths from the hall
And clears it for a different celebration. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
766:You have to live within yourself and think of all of life, all of its millions of possibilities, openings, and futures in relation to which there exists nothing that is past or has been lost. (Letters on Life) ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
767:After all, this is one of the most difficult tests for the true artist: he must always remain innocently unaware of his own virtues if he does not wish to rob them of their spontaneity and their unaffectedness. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
768:But only someone who is ready for everything, who excludes nothing, not even the most enigmatical, will live the relation to another as something alive and will himself draw exhaustively from his own existence. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
769:But to be what I am, to live what I was meant to live, to want to sound like no one else, to yield the blossoms dictated to my heart: this is what I want - and this surely cannot be arrogance. (Letters on Life) ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
770:My God, I thought with sudden vehemence, so you really are. There are proofs of your existence. I have forgotten them all and never even wanted any, for what a huge obligation would lie in the certainty of you. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
771:Often a star
was waiting for you to notice it. A wave rolled toward you
out of the distant path, or as you walked
under an open window, a violin
yielded itself to your hearing. All this was mission. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
772:Without looking at a particular one, standing in the middle between two rooms, one feels their presence drawing together into a colossal reality. As if these colors could heal one of indecision once and for all. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
773:Ah, not to be cut off, not through the slightest partition shut out from the law of the stars. The inner -- what is it? if not the intensified sky, hurled through with birds and deep with the winds of homecoming. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
774:Being dead filled her beyond fulfillment. Like a fruit
suffused with its own mystery and sweetness,
she was filled with her vast death, which was so new,
she could not understand that it had happened. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
775:I can see myself lying in my little high-sided bed, not sleeping and somehow vaguely intimating that that was how life would be: full of special things that are only intended for one person and cannot be told of. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
776:It is good to hear all of this and to see it and to seize it, not to become numb toward it but on the contrary: everything is to be felt in countless ways in all its variations yet without losing ourselves to it. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
777:Only in the realm of Praising should Lament walk, the naiad of the wept-for fountain, watching over the stream of our complaint, to keep it clear upon the very stone that bears the arch of triumph and the altar.— ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
778:Quite pure, quite free of future planning, I mounted
the tangled funeral pyre built for my suffering,
so sure of nothing more to buy for future needs,
while in my heart the stored reserves kept silent. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
779:So many are alive who don’t seem to care. Casual, easy, they move in the world as though untouched.   But you take pleasure in the faces of those who know they thirst. You cherish those who grip you for survival. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
780:Ein Mal
jedes, nur ein Mal. Ein Mal und nicht mehr. Und wir auch
ein Mal. Nie wieder. Aber dieses
ein Mal gewesen zu sein, wenn auch nur ein Mal:
irdisch gewesen zu sein, scheint nicht widerrufbar. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
781:Aparecerá la mujer cuyo nombre ya no significará sólo algo opuesto al hombre, sino algo propio, independiente. Nada que haga pensar en complemento ni en límite, sino tan sólo en vida y en ser: el Humano femenino... ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
782:Girls, there are poets who learn from you
to say, what you, in your aloneness, are;
and they learn through you to live distantness,
as the evenings through the great stars
become accustomed to eternity. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
783:If only it were possible for us to see farther than our knowledge reaches, and even a little beyond the outworks of our presentiment, perhaps we would bear our sadnesses with greater trust than we have in our joys. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
784:If your everyday life seems poor to you, do not accuse it; accuse yourself, tell yourself you are not poet enough to summon up its riches; since for the creator there is no poverty and no poor or unimportant place. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
785:La solitude qui enveloppe les oeuvres d'art est infinie, etil n'estrien qui permette de moins les atteindre que la critique. Seul l'amour peut les appréhender, les saisir et faire preuve de justesse à leur endroit: ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
786:Was bin ich unter diese
Unendlichkeit gelegt,
duftend wie eine Wiese,
hin und her bewegt,

rufend zugleich und bange,
daß einer den Ruf vernimmt,
und zum Untergange
in einem Andern bestimmt. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
787:Always the wish that you may find patience enough in yourself to endure, and simplicity enough to believe; that you may acquire more and more confidence in that which is difficult, and in your solitude among others. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
788:For one human being to love another human being: that is perhaps the most difficult task that has been given to us, the ultimate, the final problem and proof, the work for which all other work is merely preparation. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
789:If your everyday life seems to lack material, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to summon up its riches, for there is no lack for him who creates and no poor, trivial place. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
790:What is necessary, after all, is only this: solitude, vast inner solitude. To walk inside yourself and meet no one for hours-that is what you must be able to attain. To be solitary as you were when you were a child. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
791:It’s possible, I’m moving through the hard veins of heavy mountains, like an arc, alone; I’m so deep inside, I see no end in sight, and no distance: everything is getting near and everything near is turning to stone. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
792:Losing is also ours; and even forgetting/ has a shape in the permanent realm of mutation./ Things we've let go of circle; and though we are rarely a center/ of these circles: they trace around us the unbroken figure. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
793:Understand, I'll slip quietly away from the noisy crowd when I see the pale stars rising, blooming, over the oaks. I'll pursue solitary pathways through the pale twilit meadows with only this one dream: You come too. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
794:we want it visible
to show
when even the most
visible joy
will reveal itself
only when we have
transformed it within.

there’s nowhere, my love, the
world can exist
expect within. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
795:Allen diesen Meinungen von Kunst, derjenigen Tolstojs mit eingeschlossen, ist aber Eines gemeinsam: es wird nicht so sehr das Wesen der Kunst betrachtet, vielmehr sind alle bemüht, sie aus ihren Wirkungen zu erklären. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
796:Be ahead of all parting, as though it already were behind you, like the winter that has just gone by. For among these winters there is one so endlessly winter that only by wintering through it will your heart survive. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
797:For sometime now I have believed that it is our own force, all our own force that is still too great for us. It is true that we do not know it; but is it not just that which is most our own of which we know the least? ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
798:If only we arrange our life according to that principle which counsels us that we must hold to the difficult, then that which now still seems to us the most alien will become what we most trust and find most faithful. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
799:You who never arrived
in my arms, Beloved, who were lost
from the start.
I don't even know what songs
would please you. I have given up trying
to recognize you in the surging wave of the next
moment. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
800:For if we think of this existence of the individual as a larger or smaller room, it becomes clear that most people get to know only one corner of their room, a window seat, a strip of floor which they pace up and down. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
801:It is clear that we must embrace struggle. Every living thing conforms to it. Everything in nature grows and struggles in its own way, establishing its own identity, insisting on it at all cost, against all resistance. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
802:Out of infinite longings rise
finite deeds like weak fountains,
falling back just in time and trembling.
And yet, what otherwise remains silent,
our happy energies—show themselves
in these dancing tears. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
803:Look: the trees exist; the houses we dwell in stand there stalwartly. Only we pass by it all, like a rush of air. And everything conspires to keep quiet about us, half out of shame perhaps, half out of some secret hope. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
804:To understand our being here as one side of being in its entirety and to exhaust it passionately, this would be the demand placed on us by death; while life, as long as one truly admits it, is in every spot all of life. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
805:Understand I will quietly slip away from the noisy crowd when I see the pale stars rising, blooming over the oaks.

I'll pursue the solitary pathways of the twilight meadows with only this one dream. You come too. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
806:Weren't you always distracted by expectation, as if every event announced a beloved? (Where can you find a place to keep her, with all the huge strange thoughts inside you going and coming and often staying all night.). ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
807:We wasters of sorrows! How we stare away into sad endurance beyond them, trying to foresee their end! Whereas they are nothing else than our winter foliage, our sombre evergreen, one of the seasons of our interior year. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
808:When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its great wide sounds, cleanses me with its noise, and imposes a rhythm upon everthing in me that is bewildered and confused. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
809:If your daily life seems poor to you, do not blame that: blame yourself. Tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; because for the creator there is no poverty and no poor and unimportant place. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
810:Illness is the means by which an organism sheds what is foreign to it; all that needs to be done is to assist it in being sick, to have the complete illness, and then to escape from it, for that constitutes its progress. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
811:IMPERMANENCE
"Driftsand of the hours. Quietly disappearing,
continuously, even the happily consecrated design.
Life blows away, always: pillars already rise
without connection, carrying nothing but empty air. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
812:Whoever has no house now will not build one anymore/Whoever is alone now will remain so for a long time/will stay up, read, write long letters/and wander the avenues, up and down/restlessly, while the leaves are blowing. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
813:Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
814:Bound by conventions, people tend to reach for what is easy. Here we must be unafraid of what is difficult. For all living beings in nature must unfold in their particular way and become themselves despite all opposition. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
815:We have no reason to harbor any mistrust against our world, for it is not against us. If it has terrors, they are our terrors; if it has abysses, these abysses belong to us; if there are dangers, we must try to love them. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
816:Whoever has no house now, will never have one. Whoever is alone will stay alone, will sit, read, write long letters through the evening, and wander on the boulevards, up and down, restlessly, while dry leaves are blowing. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
817:Why must a man be always taking on Things not his own, as if he were a servant whose marketing-bag grows heavier and heavier from stall to stall and, loaded down, he follows and doesn’t dare ask: Master, why this banquet? ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
818:And yet, for some time now I have believed that it is our own force, all our own force that is still too great for us. It is true we do not know it; but is it not just that which is most our own of which we know the least? ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
819:Czemu mielibyśmy chcieć zamienić mądre nierozumienie dziecka na niechęć i pogardę. Wszak nierozumienie oznacza bycie samemu, natomiast niechęć i pogarda - udział w tym, od czego człowiek chce się za ich pomocą odseparować. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
820:Long you must suffer, knowing not what,
until suddenly out of spitefully chewed fruit your suffering's taste comes forth in you.
Then you will love almost instantly what's tasted. No one will ever talk you out of it. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
821:Most events are inexpressible, and take place in a sphere that no word has ever entered. Most inexpressible of all are works of art, existences full of secrets whose life continues alongside ours, while ours is transitory. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
822:T'appuyant, fraîche claire
rose, contre mon oeil fermé -,
on dirait mille paupières
superposées
contre la mienne chaude.
Mille sommeils contre ma feinte
sous laquelle je rôde
dans l'odorant labyrinthe. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
823:You must give birth to your images. They are the future waiting to be born. Fear not the strangeness you feel. The future must enter you long before it happens. Just wait for the birth, for the the hour of the new clarity. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
824:Don't be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you; simply let it happen. Otherwise it will be too easy for you to look with blame... at your past, which naturally has a share with everything that now meets you. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
825:If only we arrange our life according to that principle which counsels us that we must always hold to the difficult, then that which now still seems to us the most alien will become what we most trust and find most faithful. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
826:Those who come together in the night time and entwine in swaying delight perform a serious work and gather up sweetness, depth and strength for the song of some poet that is to be, who will rise to tell of unspeakable bliss. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
827:It is so often on the name of a misdeed that a life goes to pieces, not the nameless and personal action itself, which was perhaps a perfectly definite necessity of that life and would have been absorbed by it without effort. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
828:Wenn du der Träumer bist,
Bin ich dein traum.
Doch wenn du wachen willst,
Bin ich dein Wille.
Und werde mächtig aller Herrlichkeit
Und ründe mich wie eine sternenstille
Über der wunderlichen Stadt der Zeit ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
829:And even if you were in some prison, the walls of which let none of the sounds of the world come to your senses - would you not then still have your childhood, that precious, kingly possession, that treasure-house of memories? ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
830:In later years it would sometimes happen that I’d wake up at night and see the stars so real in the sky and so meaningful in their course, and couldn’t understand how anyone could bring themselves to miss so much of the world. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
831:Like the curved pipe of a fountain, your arching boughs
drive the sap
downward and up again: and almost without awakening
it bursts out of sleep, into its sweetest achievement.
Like the god stepping into the swan. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
832:To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
833:I am learning to see. I don’t know why it is, but everything enters me more deeply and doesn’t stop where it once used to. I have an interior that I never knew of. Everything passes into it now. I don’t know what happens there. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
834:I want to unfold. I don't want to stay folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie, and I want my grasp of things to be true. I want to describe myself like a painting that I looked at closely for a long time, ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
835:I would describe myself like a landscape I’ve studied at length, in detail; like a word I’m coming to understand; like a pitcher I pour from at mealtime; like my mother’s face; like a ship that carried me when the waters raged. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
836: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,
837:Works of art are born of those who confront danger, who go to the limit of an experience, to a point beyond which no human can go. The farther one ventures, the more distinctive, the more personal, the more unique life becomes. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
838:Be ahead of all parting, as though it already were
behind you, like the winter that has just gone by.
For among these winters there is one so endlessly winter
that only by wintering through it will your heart survive. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
839:Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
840:Seule, ô abondante fleur,
tu crées ton propre espace;
tu te mires dans und glace
d'odeur.

Ton parfum entoure comme d'autres pétales
ton innombrable calice.
Je te retiens, tu t'étales,
prodigieuse actrice. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
841:The deep parts of my life pour onward, as if the river shores were opening out. I feel closer to what language can't reach. With my senses, as with birds, I climb into the windy heaven... in the ponds broken off from the sky. . . ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
842:Ah, not to be cut off,
not through the slightest partition
shut out from the law of the stars.
The inner -- what is it?
if not the intensified sky,
hurled through with birds and deep
with the winds of homecoming. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
843:The Sonnets to Orpheus, Part Two, XII

Want the change. Be inspired by the flame
where everything shines as it disappears.
The artist, when sketching, loves nothing so much
as the curve of the body as it turns away. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
844:Confess to yourself in the deepest hour of the night whether you would have to die if you were forbidden to write. Dig deep into your heart, where the answer spreads its roots in your being, and ask yourself solemnly, Must I write? ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
845:Through loss, through great, immoderate loss, we are actually quite introduced into the Whole. Death is only an unsparing way of placing us on intimate and trusting terms with that side of our existence that is turned away from us. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
846:weren’t you always
distracted by expectation, as if every event
announced a beloved? (Where can you find a place
to keep her, with all the huge strange thoughts inside you
going and coming and often staying all night.)… ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
847:And those who come together in the night and are entwined in rocking delight do an earnest work and gather sweetnesses, gather depth and strength for the song of some coming poet, who will arise to speak of ecstasies beyond telling. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
848:I am able more and more to make use of that long patience you have taught me by your tenacious example; that patience which, disproportionate to ordinary life which seems to bid us haste, puts us in touch with all that surpasses us. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
849:And how bewildered is any womb-born creature
that has to fly. As if terrified and fleeing
from itself, it zigzags through the air, the way
a crack runs through a teacup. So the bat
quivers across the porcelain of evening. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
850:Religion is something infinitely simple, ingenuous. It is not knowledge, not content of feeling... it is not duty and not renunciation, it is not restriction: but in the infinite extent of the universe it is a direction of the heart. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
851:Be of good courage all is before you, and time passed in the difficult is never lost...What is required of us is that we live the difficult and learn to deal with it. In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
852:I live my life in growing orbits which move out over this wondrous world, I am circling around God, around ancient towers and i have been circling for a thousand years. And I still dont know if I am an eagle or a storm or a great song. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
853:The free animal
has its dying always behind it
and God in front of it, and its way
is the eternal way, as the spring flowing.
Never, not for a moment, do we have
pure space before us, where the flowers
endlessly open. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
854:There are a large number of people in the room, but one is unaware of them. They are in the books. At times they move among the pages, like sleepers turning over between two dreams. Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
855:Whoever has no house now, will never have one.
Whoever is alone will stay alone,
will sit, read, write long letters through the evening,
and wander on the boulevards, up and down,
restlessly, while dry leaves are blowing. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
856:with poems one accomplishes so little when one writes them early. One should hold off and gather sense and sweetness a whole life long, a long life if possible, and then, right at the end, one could perhaps write ten lines that are good. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
857:It's possible I am pushing through solid rock
in flintlike layers, as the ore lies, alone;
I am such a long way in I see no way through,
and no space: everything is close to my face,
and everything close to my face is stone. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
858:Losing too is still ours; and even forgetting still has a shape in the kingdom of transformation. When something's let go of, it circles; and though we are rarely the center of the circle, it draws around us its unbroken, marvelous curve. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
859:Maybe we’re here only to say: house,
bridge, well, gate, jug, olive tree, window —
at most, pillar, tower … but to say them, remember,
oh, to say them in a way that the things themselves
never dreamed of existing so intensely. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
860:Whom will you cry to, heart?
More and more lonely,
your path struggles on through incomprehensible
mankind. All the more futile perhaps
for keeping to its direction, keeping on toward the future,
toward what has been lost. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
861:And those, who come together in the night and are twined in quivering pleasure, are performing a serious work and are heaping up sweetness, depth and force for the song of some coming poet, who will arise to express inexpressible ecstasies ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
862:En une seule fleur
Enchantée de cet artifice,
ton abondance l’avait osé.

Tu étais assez riche, pour devenir cent
fois toi-même en une seule fleur;
c’est l’état de celui qui aime
Mais tu n’as pas pensé ailleurs. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
863:I don't have much knowledge yet in grief -
so this massive darkness makes me small.
You be the master: make yourself fierce, break in:
then your great transforming will happen to me,
and my great grief cry will happen to you. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
864:Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any complement and limit, but only life and reality: the female human being. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
865:Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves...At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
866:We must assume our existence as broadly as we in any way can; everything, even the unheard - of, must be possible in it. This is at bottom the only courage that is demanded of us: to have courage for the most strange, the most inexplicable. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
867:Who among us would not have to strive for this above everything else: to reach such security in one’s ability that one has always the correct counterweights ready within one’s conscience to offset the judgment that arrives from the outside. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
868:The world of sexuality it finds is not entirely mature and pure, it is not human enough, only virile, rut, intoxication, restlessness, and weighed down by the old prejudices and arrogance with which men have disfigured and overburdened love. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
869:All the things that cannot be gained through our pleading can be given to us only as something unexpected, something extra: this is why I am yet again confirmed in my belief that often nothing seems to matter in life but the longest patience. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
870:De ton rêve trop plein,
fleur en dedans nombreuse,
mouillée comme une pleureuse,
tu te penches sur le matin.

Tes douces forces qui dorment,
dans un désir incertain,
développent ces tendres formes
entre joues et seins. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
871:When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its great wide sounds, cleanses me with its noise, and imposes a rhythm upon everything in me that is bewildered and confused."
Rainer Maria Rilke ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
872:Eating, too, has been turned away from its true nature: want on the one hand and superfluity on the other have troubled the clarity of this need, and all the profound, simple necessities in which life renews itself have similarly been obscured. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
873:Look: the trees exist; the houses
we dwell in stand there stalwartly.
Only we
pass by it all, like a rush of air.
And everything conspires to keep quiet
about us,
half out of shame perhaps, half out of
some secret hope. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
874:Učim da gledam. Ne znam razloga tome, ali sve u mene ulazi dublje i ne zaustavlja se na onom mestu na kojem se inače uvek okončavalo. U mom biću postoji neka unutrašnjost o kojoj ništa nisam znao. Sve sad odlazi tamo. Ne znam šta se onde zbiva. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
875:In marriage, the point is not to achieve a rapid union by tearing down and toppling all boundaries. Rather, in a good marriage, each person appoints the other to be the guardian of his solitude and thus shows him the greatest faith he can bestow. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
876:Ne parlons pas de toi. Tu es ineffable
selon ta nature.
D'autres fleurs ornent la table
que tu transfigures.

On te met dans un simple vase -,
voici que tout change:
c'est peut-être la même phrase,
mais chantée par un ange. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
877:And children are still the way you were ...as a child, sad and happy in just the same way and if you think of your childhood, you once again live among them, among the solitary children, and the grownups are nothing, and their dignity has no value. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
878:And many a day's hours were like that.
As if someone fashioned my likeness somewhere
in order to torment it slowly with needles.
I felt each sharp prick of his playing,
and it was: as if a rain fell on me
in which all things change. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
879:Bibliothèque Nationale. Ich sitze und lese einen Dichter. Es sind viele Leute im Saal, aber man spürt sie nicht. Sie sind in den Büchern. Manchmal bewegen sie sich in den Blättern, wie Menschen, die schlafen und sich umwenden zwischen zwei Träumen. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
880:The moments when something new has entered us, something unknown; our feelings grow mute in shy embarrassment, everything in us withdraws, a silence arises, and the new experience, which no one knows, stands in the midst of it all and says nothing. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
881:a kind of memory that tells us that what we're now striving for was once nearer and truer and attached to us with infinite tenderness. Here all is distance, there it was breath. After the first home the second one seems draughty and strangely sexed. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
882:Don’t be confused by
surfaces; in the depths everything becomes law. And those who live the mystery
falsely and badly (and they are very many) lose it only for themselves and
nevertheless pass it on like a sealed letter, without knowing it. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
883:Works of art always spring from those who have faced the danger, gone to the very end of an experience, to the point beyond which no human being can go. The further one dares to go, the more decent, the more personal, the more unique a life becomes. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
884:He was a worker whose only desire was to penetrate with all his forces into the humble and difficult significance of his tools. Therein lay a certain renunciation of Life, but in just this renunciation lay his triumph, for Life entered into his work. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
885: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. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
886:There is no task as urgent for us as to learn daily how to die, but our knowledge of death is not increased by the renunciation of life; only the ripe fruit of the here and now that has been seized and bitten will spread its indescribable taste in us. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
887:Maledizione antica dei poeti
che invece di parlare si lamentano,
che sempre giudicano il loro sentimento
invece di formarlo; e si ostinano a pensare
che quanto in loro è lieto o triste, spetti
a loro deplorare o celebrare nella poesia. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
888:Os filósofos deveriam ser pacientes e esperar, e não querer fundar uma soberania, nem um reino que se mantenha com os meios do seu tempo. Eles são os reis do vindouro, e as suas coroas ainda são unas com os minérios que enchem as veias das montanhas... ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
889:To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.”
Rainer Maria Rilke ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
890:If we allow an encounter with a given thing to be shaped by this expectation that it may last, every such experience will be spoiled and falsified, and ultimately it will be prevented from unfolding its most proper and authentic potential and fertility. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
891:Losing too is still ours; and even forgetting
still has a shape in the kingdom of transformation.
When something's let go of, it circles; and though we are
rarely the center
of the circle, it draws around us its unbroken, marvelous
curve. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
892:Si votre vie quotidienne vous paraît pauvre, ne l'accusez pas; accusez-vous plutôt, dites-vous que vous n'êtes pas assez poète pour en convoquer les richesses.
Pour celui qui crée, il n'y a pas, en effet, de pauvreté ni de lieu indigent, indifférent. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
893:There are quite a number of people in the reading-room; but one is not aware of them. They are inside the books. They move, sometimes, within the pages like sleepers turning over between two dreams. Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
894:Oh Malte, we just go on living, and it seems to me that everyone is distracted and busy and no one pays proper attention as we go along. As if a meteor were to fall and no one sees it and no one has made a wish. Never forget to wish for something, Malte. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
895:Society in its wisdom has found ways of constructing refuges of all kinds, for since it has been disposed to make the love-life a pastime, it has also felt obliged to trivialize it, to make it cheap, risk-free and secure, as public pleasures usually are. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
896:That is why young people, who are beginners in everything, are not yet capable of love: it is something they must learn. With their whole being, with all their forces, gathered around their solitary, anxious, upward-beating heart, they must learn to love. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
897:[...] intente amar las preguntas por sí mismas, como habitaciones cerradas o libros escritos en una lengua muy extraña. No busque ahora las respuestas: no le pueden ser dadas, porque no podría vivirlas. Y se trata de vivirlo todo. Viva ahora las preguntas. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
898:Sometime we will have to stop overevaluating the word. We shall learn to realize that it is only one of the many bridges that connect the island of our soul with the great continent of common life. . . the broadest, perhaps, but in no way the most refined. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
899:Who, if I cried, would hear me among the angelic orders? And even if one of them suddenly pressed me against his heart, I should fade in the strength of his stronger existence. For beauty's nothing but the beginning of terror we're still just able to bear. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
900:No one can advise or help you - no one. There is only one thing you should do. Go into yourself. Search for the reason that bids you write, find out wether it spreading out its root in the deepest places of your heart...Delve into yourself for a deep answer ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
901:Some day there will be girls and women whose name will no longer signify merely an opposite of the masculine, but something in itself, something that makes one think, not of any complement and limit, but only of life and existence: the feminine human being. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
902:Pa još se uopšte nisam privikao ovom svetu, koji mi se čini dobar. Šta ću u nekom drugom ? Tako bih rado ostao među značenjima koja sam zavoleo, pa ako se već nešto mora promeniti želeo bih da bar smem živeti među psima, koji imaju srodan svet i iste stvari. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
903:Seulement la terre qui obéit,
sait bien qu'elle tourne en rond,
tandis que nous vers l'infini
nous précipitons.

Translation:
But the obedient Earth well knows
that she moves round and round,
whereas we hurtle down
toward infinity. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
904:La rose complète
J’ai une telle conscience de ton
être, rose complète,
que mon consentement te confond
avec mon cœur en fête.

Je te respire comme si tu étais,
rose, toute la vie,
et je me sens l’ami parfait
d’une telle amie. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
905:This humanity of woman, brought forth in pains and degradations, will come to light when she has shed the conventions of mere femininity in the alterations of her outward station, and the men who today do not feel it coming will be surprised and struck by it. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
906:Great sadnesses … they are the moments when something new has entered into us, something unknown; our feelings grow mute in shy perplexity, everything in us withdraws, a stillness comes, and the new, which no one knows, stands in the midst of it and is silent. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
907:There is only one solitude, and it is vast, heavy, difficult to bear, and almost everyone has hours when he would gladly exchange it for any kind of sociability, however trivial or cheap, for the tiniest outward agreement with the first person who comes along. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
908:To keep growing, silently and earnestly, through your while development; you couldn’t disturb it any more violently than by looking outside and waiting for outside answers to question that only your innermost feeling, in your quietest hour, can perhaps answer. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
909:And these things that keep alive on departure know that you praise them; transient, they look to us, the most transient, to be their rescue. They want us to change them completely, in our invisible hearts, into -- O endlessly -- us! Whoever, finally, we may be. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
910:For there clings to him something that often overwhelms us—
memory, a recollection that whatever we're striving for now
was once closer and truer, and that its union with us was incredibly tender.
Here, everything is distance;
There, is was breath. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
911:Je te vois, rose, livre entrebâillé,
qui contient tant de pages
de bonheur détaillé
qu'on ne lira jamais. Livre-mage,
qui s'ouvre au vent et qui peut être lu
les yeux fermés ...,
dont les papillons sortent confus
d'avoir eu les mêmes idées. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
912:Ultimately, and precisely in the deepest and most important matters, we are unspeakably alone; and many things must happen, many things must go right, a whole constellation of events must be fulfilled, for one human being to successfully advise or help another. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
913:Whoever now makes himself bigger, freer and more human in his own existence, is doing his part toward peace, — as yet it must be worked at in an inward direction, not until a few have it all big and ready within them can it let itself be brought into the world. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
914:Isn't it time that these most ancient sorrows of ours grew fruitful? Time that we tenderly loosed ourselves from the loved one, and, unsteadily, survived: the way the arrow, suddenly all vector, survives the string to be more than itself. For abiding is nowhere. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
915:Again and again in history some people wake up. They have no ground in the crowd and move to broader deeper laws. They carry strange customs with them and demand room for bold and audacious action. The future speaks ruthlessly through them. They change the world. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
916:[A]t bottom, and just in the deepest and most important things, we are unutterably alone, and for one person to be able to advise or even help another, a lot must happen, a lot must go well, a whole constellation of things must come right in order once to succeed. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
917:Take the destiny upon yourself, and bear it, its burden and
its greatness, without ever asking what reward might come from outside. For the creator must be a world for himself and must find everything in himself and in Nature, to whom his whole life is devoted. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
918:Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty and sadness and remains far behind yours. Were it otherwise he would never have been able to find those words. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
919:Do you remember how this life of yours longed in childhood to belong to the grown-ups? I can see that it now longs to move on from them and is drawn to those who are greater yet. That is why it does not cease to be difficult, but also why it will not cease to grow. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
920:The point of marriage is not to create a quick commonality by tearing down all boundaries on the contrary, a good marriage is one in which each partner appoints the other to be the guardian of his solitude, and thus they show each other the greatest possible trust. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
921:for at bottom, and just in the deepest and most important things, we are unutterably alone, and for one person to be able to advise or even help another, a lot must happen, a lot must go well, a whole constellation of things must come right in order once to succeed. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
922:For it is not inertia alone that is responsible for human relationships repeating themselves from case to case, indescribably monotonous and unrenewed; it is shyness before any sort of new, unforeseeable experience with which one does not think oneself able to cope. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
923:I am learning to see. Why, I cannot say, but all things enter more deeply into me; nor do the impressions remain at the level where they used to cease. There is a place within me of which I knew nothing. Now all things tend that way. I do not know what happens there. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
924:Weißt du, ich will mich schleichen
leise aus lautem Kreis,
wenn ich erst die bleichen
Sterne über den Eichen
blühen weiß.

Wege will ich erkiesen,
die selten wer betritt
in blassen Abendwiesen?
und keinen Traum, als diesen:
Du gehst mit. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
925:Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. . . . Live the questions now. Perhaps you will gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer. —Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet S ~ Bessel A van der Kolk,
926:It almost seems as if autumn were the true creator, more creative than the spring, which is too even-toned, more creative when it comes with its will-to-change and shatters the much too ready-made, self-satisfied and really almost bourgeois-complacent image of summer. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
927:Read as little as possible of literary criticism — such things are either partisan opinions, which have become petrified and meaningless, hardened and empty of life, or else they are just clever word-games, in which one view wins today, and tomorrow the opposite view. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
928:Turn your attentions to it. Try to raise up the sunken feelings of this enormous past; your personality will grow stronger, your solitude will expand and become a place where you can live in the twilight, where the noise of other people passes by, far in the distance. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
929:Dirait-on
Abandon entouré d'abandon,
tendresse touchant aux tendresses ...
C'est ton intérieur qui sans cesse
se caresse, dirait-on;

se caresse en soi-même,
par son propre reflet éclairé.
Ainsi tu inventes le thème
du Narcisse exaucé. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
930:Describe your sorrows and desires, passing thoughts and the belief in some sort of beauty-describe all these with loving, quiet, humble sincerity, and use, to express yourself, the things in your environment, the images from your dreams, and the objects of your memory. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
931:To write rhythmic prose one must go deep into oneself and find the anonymous and multiple rhythm of the blood. Prose needs to be built like a cathedral. There, one is truly without a name, without ambition, without help; on scaffoldings, alone with one's consciousness. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
932:Why, if this interval of being can be spent serenely in the form of a laurel, slightly darker than all other green, with tiny waves on the edges of every leaf (like the smile of a breeze)—: why then have to be human—and, escaping from fate, keep longing for fate? . . . ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
933:But when I lean over the chasm of myself—
it seems
my God is dark
and like a web: a hundred roots
silently drinking.

This is the ferment I grow out of.

More I don’t know, because my branches
rest in deep silence, stirred only by the wind. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
934:Jubilation knows and Longing grants —
only Lament still learns; with girlish hands
she counts the ancient evil through the nights.

But suddenly, unpracticed and askant,
she lifts one of our voice’s constellations
Into the sky unclouded by her breath. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
935:there is only one solitude, and it is vast, heavy, difficult to bear, and almost everyone has hours when he would gladly exchange it for any kind of sociability, however trivial or cheap, for the tiniest outward agreement with the first person who comes along.... ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
936:Never forget to make a wish, Malte. You should never give up wishing. I believe there is no such thing as fulfillment, but there are wishes, and they go on lasting, your whole lifetime, so that you couldn’t wait long enough for them to be fulfilled even if you wanted to. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
937:Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
938:Then take your fate upon yourself and bear it, its burden and its greatness, without ever asking for that reward which might come from without. For the creator must be a world for himself, and find everything within himself, and in Nature to which he has attached himself. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
939:Turn your attentions to it. Try to raise up the sunken feelings of this enormous past; your personality will grow stronger, your solitude will expand and become a place where you can live in the twilight, where the noise of other
people passes by, far in the distance. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
940:It should either have passed away with my childhood, or my childhood should have flowed away from it later, leaving it behind, real among all the rest of reality, something to see and objectively tell, like a thing in Cezanne, incomprehensible for all I care, but tangible. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
941:No experience has been too unimportant, and the smallest event unfolds like a fate, and fate itself is like a wonderful, wide fabric in which every thread is guided by an infinitely tender hand and laid alongside another thread and is held and supported by a hundred others ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
942:Things are not as easy to understand and say as we might prefer to believe; most events are inexpressible, happening in a space where no word has ever set foot, and most inexpressible of all are works of art, mysterious existences, whose life continues as ours passes away. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
943:This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess of that precious nourishing love from which flowers and children have their strength and which could help all human beings if they would take it without doubting. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
944:I’m learning how to see. I don’t know what the reason is, but everything enters into me more deeply and no longer stops at the point where it used to come to an end. I have an inner self that I knew nothing about. Now everything goes into it. I don’t know what happens there. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
945:[R]ejoice in your growth, in which you naturally can take no one with you, and be kind to those who remain behind, and be sure and clam before them and do not torment them with your doubts and do not frighten them with your confidence or joy, which they could not understand. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
946:Whether you are surrounded by the singing of a lamp or the sounds of a storm, by the breathing of the evening or the sighing of the sea, there is a vast melody woven of a thousand voices that never leaves you and only occasionally leaves room for your solo. (Letters on Life) ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
947:Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
948:But sing, when you must, of great lovers:
their fame has a long way to go before it's really immortal.
Those you almost envied, the unrequited, whom you found
more loving than the gratified, the content—
begin again and again the praise you can never fully express. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
949:I basically do not believe that it matters to be happy in the sense in which people expect to be happy. But I can so absolutely understand the kind of arduous happiness that consists in rousing forces through a determined effort, forces that then start to work upon one’s self. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
950:Une rose seule, c'est toutes les roses
et celle-ci: l'irremplaçable,
le parfait, le souple vocable
encadré par le texte des choses.

Comment jamais dire sans elle
ce que furent nos espérances,
et les tendres intermittences,
dans la partance continuelle. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
951:We are not permitted to linger, even with what is most intimate. From images that are full, the spirit plunges on to others that suddenly must be filled; there are no lakes till eternity. Here, falling is best. To fall from the mastered emotion into the guessed-at, and onward. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
952:If there is anything unhealthy in your reactions, just bear in mind that sickness is the means by which an organism frees itself from what is alien; so one must simply help it to be sick, to have its whole sickness and to break out with it, since that is the way it gets better. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
953:Isn’t it time that these most ancient sorrows of ours
grew fruitful? Time that we tenderly loosed ourselves
from the loved one, and, unsteadily, survived:
the way the arrow, suddenly all vector, survives the string
to be more than itself. For abiding is nowhere. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
954:You are so young, you have not even begun, and I would like to beg you, dear Sir, as well as I can, to have patience with everything that is unsolved in your heart and to try to cherish the questions themselves, like closed rooms and like books written in a very strange tongue. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
955:Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty and sadness and remains far behind yours. Were it otherwise he would never have been able to find those words. —RAINER MARIA RILKE ~ Ryan Holiday,
956:I wanted only to advise you to progress quietly and seriously in your evolvement. You could greatly interfere with that process if you look outward and expect to obtain answers from the outside—answers which only your innermost feeling in your quietest hour can perhaps give you. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
957:I, who even as a child had been so distrustful of music (not because it took me out of myself more powerfully than anything else, but because I had noticed that it did not put me back where it had found me, but left me deeper down, somewhere in the heart of things unfinished)... ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
958:Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty and sadness and remains far behind yours. Were it otherwise he would never have been able to find those words. — RAINER MARIA RILKE ~ Ryan Holiday,
959:His smile was so soft and fine:
like gleaming old ivory,
like homesickness, like a Christmas snowfall
in the dark village, like turquoise
around which many pearls are fashioned,
like moonlight
on a favorite book.

-in Mädchenmelancholie (Girls' melancholy) ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
960:If it were possible for us to see further than our knowledge extends and out a little over the outworks of our surmising, perhaps we should then bear our sorrows with greater confidence than our joys. For they are the moments when something new, something unknown, has entered us. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
961:Verses are not, as people think, feelings (those one has early enough) -- they are experiences. For the sake of a verse one must see many cities, men, and things, one must know the animals feel how birds fly, and know the gesture with which the little flowers open in the morning. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
962:You are so young, so much before all beginning, and I would like to beg you, dear Sir, as well as I can, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
963:Est-ce en exemple que tu te proposes?
Peut-on se remplir comme les roses,
en multipliant sa subtile matière
qu'on avait faite pour ne rien faire?

Car ce n'est pas travailler que d'être
une rose, dirait-on.
Dieu, en regardant par la fenêtre,
fait la maison. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
964:May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children. Then in these swelling and ebbing currents, these deepening tides moving out, returning, I will sing you as no one ever has, streaming through widening channels into the open sea. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
965:Yet, no matter how deeply I go down into myself, my God is dark, and like a webbing made of a hundred roots that drink in silence. I know that my trunk rose from his warmth, but that's all, because my branches hardly move at all near the ground, and just wave a little in the wind. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
966:A kind of memory that tells us
that what we're now striving for was
once
nearer and truer and attached to us
with infinite tenderness. Here all is
distance,
there it was breath. After the first
home
the second one seems draughty and
strangely sexed. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
967:Do not assume that he who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, he would never have been able to find these words. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
968:C'est pourtant nous qui t'avons proposé
de remplir ton calice.
Enchantée de cet artifice,
ton abondance l'avait osé.

Tu étais assez riche, pour devenir cent fois toi-même
en une seule fleur;
c'est l'état de celui qui aime ...
Mais tu n'as pas pensé ailleurs. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
969:Do you recall, from your childhood on, how very much this life of yours has longed for greatness? I see it now, how from the vantage point of greatness it longs for even greater greatness. That is why it does not let up being difficult, but that is also why it will not cease to grow. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
970:Here is the time for the sayable, here is its home. Speak and attest. More than ever the things we can live with are falling away, and ousting them, filling their place, a will with no image. Will beneath crusts which readily crack whenever the act inside swells and seeks new borders. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
971:Oh hours of childhood,
when behind each shape more than the past appeared
and what streamed out before us was not the future.
We felt our bodies growing and were at times impatient to be grown up, half for the sake
of those with nothing left but their grownupness. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
972:How could we forget those ancient myths that stand at the beginning of all races, the myths about dragons that at the last moment are transformed into princesses? Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
973:There is here no measuring with time, no year matters, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force its sap and stands confident in the storms of spring without the fear that after them may come no summer. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
974:Think... of the world which you carry within yourself... and set it above everything that you notice about you. Your inmost happening is worth your whole love, that is what you must somehow work at, and not loose too much time and too much courage in explaining your attitude to people. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
975:Love is something difficult and it is more difficult than other things because in other conflicts nature herself enjoins men to collect themselves, to take themselves firmly in the hand with all their strength, while in the heightening of love the impulse is to give oneself wholly away. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
976:Nobody can advise and help you, nobody. There is only one single means. Go inside yourself. Discover the motive that bids you write; examine whether it sends its roots down to the deepest places of your heart, confess to yourself whether you would have to die if writing were denied you. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
977:The future: time's excuse
to frighten us; too vast
a project, too large a morsel
for the heart's mouth.

Future, who won't wait for you?
Everyone is going there.
It suffices you to deepen
the absence that we are.
Translated by A. Poulin

~ Rainer Maria Rilke, The Future
,
978:Try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live with them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
979:Wie meine Träume nach Dir schrein.
Wir sind uns mühsam fremd geworden,
Jetzt will es mir die Seele morden
Dies arme, bange Einsamsein.

Kein Hoffen, das die Segel bauscht.
Nur diese weite, weisse Stille,
In die mein thatenloser Wille
In athemlosem Bangen lauscht. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
980:And this is why it is so important to be lonely and attentive when one is sad: because the apparently uneventful and stark moment at which our future sets foot in us is so much closer to life than that other noisy and fortuitous point of time at which it happens to us as if from outside. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
981:Death is our friend precisely because it brings us into absolute and passionate presence with all that is here, that is natural, that is love… Life always says Yes and No simultaneously. Death (I implore you to believe) is the true Yea-sayer. It stands before eternity and says only: Yes. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
982:Ornamental clouds
compose an evening love song;
a road leaves evasively.
The new moon begins

a new chapter of our nights,
of those frail nights
we stretch out and which mingle
with these black horizontals.
Translated by A. Poulin

~ Rainer Maria Rilke, Evening Love Song
,
983:Why should you want to give up a child's wise not-understanding in exchange for defensiveness and scorn, since not-understanding is, after all, a way of being alone, whereas defensiveness and scorn are a participation in precisely what, by these means, you want to separate yourself from. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
984:And these things
that keep alive on departure know that
you praise them; transient,
they look to us, the most transient,
to be their rescue.
They want us to change them completely,
in our invisible hearts,
into -- O endlessly -- us! Whoever,
finally, we may be. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
985: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 even noticing it, live your way into the answer. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
986:If you trust in Nature, in the small Things that hardly anyone sees and that can so suddenly become huge, immeasurable; if you have this love for what is humble and try very simply, as someone who serves, to win the confidence of what seems poor, then everything will become easier for you. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
987:I live my life in widening circle That reach out across the world. I may not ever complete the last one, But I give myself to it. I circle around God, that primordial tower. I have been circling for thousands of years, And I still don't know: am I a falcon, A storm, or a great song? [I, 2] ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
988:Warum, wenn es angeht, also die Frist des Daseins
hinzubringen, als Lorbeer, ein wenig dunkler als alles
andere Grün, mit kleinen Wellen an jedem
Blattrand (wie eines Windes Lächeln) –: warum dann
Menschliches müssen – und, Schicksal vermeidend,
sich sehnen nach Schicksal?. . ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
989:If there is nothing you can share with other people, try to be close to Things. Things will not abandon you. The nights are still there, and the winds that move through the trees and across many lands. Everything in the world of Things and animals is filled with being, of which you are part. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
990:Lord, it is time. The summer was very big. Lay thy shadow on the sundials, and on the meadows let the winds go loose. Command the last fruits that they shall be full; give them another two more southerly days, press them on to fulfillment and drive the last sweetiness into the heavenly wine. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
991:Du, dem ich's nicht sage, daß ich bei Nacht weinend liege, dessen Wesen mich müde macht wie eine Wiege. Du, der mir nicht sagt, wenn er wacht meinetwillen: wie, wenn wir diese Pracht ohne zu stillen in uns ertrügen? Sieh Dir die Liebenden an, wenn erst das Bekennen begann, wie bald sie lügen. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
992:I only wanted to advise you also, to grow quietly and seriously throughout your development too; you cannot disturb it more violently than if you look to the outside and from the outside expect a response to questions that only your innermost feeling at your quietest hour can possibly answer. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
993:I would finally just like to advise you to grow through your development quietly and seriously; you can interrupt it in no more violent manner than by looking outwards, and expecting answer from outside to questions which perhaps only your innermost feeling in your most silent hour can answer. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
994:She was in herself, like a woman near term,
and did not think of the man, going on ahead,
or the path, climbing upwards towards life.
She was in herself. And her being-dead
filled her with abundance.
As a fruit with sweetness and darkness,
so she was full with her vast death. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
995:That your world is in agony is no reason to turn your back on it, or to try to escape into private “spiritual” pursuits. Rilke reminded me that I had the strength and courage to walk out into the world as into my own heart, and to “love the things / as no one has thought to love them” (I, 61). ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
996:While they mean to please each other, they touch each other only impatiently and in a dominating manner. And in the effort to escape from the intolerable and unbearable condition of their confusion, they commit the greatest mistake that can be made within a relationship: they become impatient. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
997:No, no, one can imagine nothing in the world, not the least thing. Everything is composed of so many isolated details that are not to be foreseen. In one's imagining one passes over them and hasty as one is doesn't notice that they are missing. But realities are slow and indescribably detailed. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
998:O espaço, fora de nós, ganha e traduz as coisas:
Se quiseres conquistar a existência de uma árvore,
Reveste-a de espaço interno, esse espaço
Que tem seu ser em ti. Cerca-a de coações.
Ela não tem limite, e só se torna realmente uma árvore
Quando se ordena no seio da tua renúncia. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
999:Things are not all so comprehensible and utterable as people would mostly have us believe; most events are unutterable, consummating themselves in a sphere where word has never trod, and more unutterable than them all are works of art, whose life endures by the side of our own that passes away. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1000:Don't ask for any advice from them and don't expect any understanding; but believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1001:Harshness vanished. A sudden softness has replaced the meadows' wintry grey. Little rivulets of water changed their singing accents. Tendernesses, hesitantly, reach toward the earth from space, and country lanes are showing these unexpected subtle risings that find expression in the empty trees. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1002:Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue [...] Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1003:Do you see . . . So this is what one ought to be capable of at some point. Not to wait (which is what has been happening until now) for powerful things and good days to turn you into something but to preempt them and to be it yourself already: this is what one ought to be capable of at some point. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1004:For our part, when we feel, we evaporate; ah, we breathe ourselves out and away; with each new heartfire we give off a fainter scent. True, someone may tell us: you're in my blood, this room, Spring itself is filled with you . . . To what end? He can't hold us, we vanish within him and around him. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1005:Just the wish that you may find in yourself enough patience to endure and enough simplicity to have faith; that you may gain more and more confidence in what is difficult and in your solitude among other people. And as for the rest, let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1006:there is only one solitude, and it is great and is not easy to bear, and to almost everyone there come hours when they would gladly exchange it for some kind of communion, however banal and cheap, for the appearance of some slight harmony with the most easily available, with the most undeserving. . ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1007:schließlich wollte ich Ihnen ja auch nur raten, still und ernst durch Ihre Entwicklung durchzuwachsen; Sie können sie gar nicht heftiger stören, als wenn Sie nach außen sehen und von außen Antwort erwarten auf Fragen, die nur Ihr innerstes Gefühl in Ihrer leisesten Stunde vielleicht beantworten kann. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1008:There exist relationships that must amount to a very great and almost unbearable happiness, but they can take place only between people blessed with abundance and between individuals each one of whom is rich, focused, and mindful; they can be united only by two expansive, deep, and individual worlds. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1009:Who is there today who still cares about a well-finished death? No one. Even the rich, who could after all afford this luxury, are beginning to grow lazy and indifferent; the desire to have a death of one's own is becoming more and more rare. In a short time it will be as rare as a life of one's own. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1010:I think about the poet Rainer Maria Rilke who said that it's the questions that move us, not the answers. As a writer, I believe that it's our task, our responsibility, to hold the mirror up to social injustices that we see and to create a prayer of beauty. The questions serve us in that capacity. ~ Terry Tempest Williams,
1011:To make myself understood and to diminish the distance between us, I called out: “I am an evening cloud too.” They stopped still, evidently taking a good look at me. Then they stretched towards me their fine, transparent, rosy wings. That is how evening clouds greet each other. They had recognized me. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1012:the longer I live, the more necessary it seems to me to endure, to copy the whole dictation of existence to the end, for it might be that only the last sentence contains that small, perhaps inconspicuous word through which all laboriously learned and not understood orients itself toward glorious sense. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1013:There is only a single, urgent task: to attach oneself someplace to nature, to that which is strong, striving and bright with unreserved readiness, and then to move forward in one’s efforts without any calculation or guile, even when engaged in the most trivial and mundane activities. (Letters on Life) ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1014:Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his conscious reflection, his progressive steps, mysterious even to himself, should enter so swiftly into the work that he is unable to recognize them in the moment of transition. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1015:The possibility of intensifying things so that they reveal their essence depends so much on our participation. When things sense our avid interest, they pull themselves together without delay and are all that they can be, and in everything new the old is then whole, only different and vastly heightened. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1016:I think of you at any time of the day and my worried thoughts accompany all your steps. The slightest breath on your forehead is a kiss from my lips and each dream speaks to you with my voice. My love is like a coat wrapped around you to protect and warm you up.”

—from letter to Lou Andreas-Salomé ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1017:Things are not all so comprehensible and expressible as one would mostly have us believe; most events are inexpressible, taking place in a realm which no word has ever entered, and more inexpressible than all else are works of art, mysterious existences, the life of which, while ours passes away, endures. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1018:Da gibt es kein Messen mit der Zeit, da gilt kein Jahr, und zehn Jahre sind nichts, Künstler sein heißt: nicht rechnen und zählen; reifen wie der Baum, der seine Säfte nicht drängt und getrost in den Stürmen des Frühlings steht ohne die Angst, daß dahinter kein Sommer kommen könnte. [...] Geduld ist alles! ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1019:Dis-moi, rose, d'où vient
qu'en toi-même enclose,
ta lente essence impose
à cet espace en prose
tous ces transports aérien?

Combien de fois cet air
prétend que les choses le trouent,
ou, avec une moue,
il se montre amer.
Tandis qu'autour de ta chair,
rose, il fait la roue. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1020:If the confident animal coming toward us
had a mind like ours,
the change in him would startle us.
But to him his own being is endless,
undefined, and without regard
for his condition: clear,
like his eyes. Where we see future,
he sees all, and himself
in all, made whole for always. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1021:If there is nothing you can share with other people, try to be close to Things, they will not abandon you; and the nights are still here and the winds that move through the trees and across many lands; everything in the world of Things and animals is still filled with happening, which you can take part in. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1022:Is it not peculiar that nearly all of the great philosophers and psychologists have always paid attention to the earth and nothing but the earth? Would it not be more sublime to lift our eyes from this crumb, and instead of considering a speck of dust in the universe, to turn our attention to space itself? ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1023:Even when the lights go out, even when someone says to me: "It's over---," even when from the stage a gray gust of emptiness drifts toward me,
even when not one silent ancestor sits beside me anymore---not a woman, not even the boy with the brown squint-eye:
I'll sit here anyway. One can always watch. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1024:All feelings that concentrate you and lift you up are pure; only that feeling is impure which grasps just one side of your being and thus distorts you. Everything you can think of as you face your childhood, is good. Everything that makes more of you than you have ever been, even in your best hours, is right. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1025:Do not believe that the person who is trying to offer you solace lives his life effortlessly among the simple and quiet words that might occasionally comfort you. His life is filled with much hardship and sadness, and it remains far behind yours. But if it were otherwise, he could never have found these words. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1026:I think it shapes it in very deep ways that you don't entirely understand. Rainer Maria Rilke said there are two inexhaustible sources for poetry. One is dreams, and the other is childhood. I think childhood is an inexhaustible source of your becoming who you will be and certain deep feelings are set inside of you. ~ Edward Hirsch,
1027:(...) que una cosa sigui difícil ha de ser per a nosaltres un motiu més per fer-la. estimar també és bo: perquè l'amor és difícil. Estimar de persona a persona: això és potser el més difícil que se'ns ha encomanat, el més extrem, l'última prova, el treball per al qual tot altre treball és només una preparació. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1028:What goes on in your innermost being is worthy of your whole love; you must somehow keep working at it and not lose too much time and too much courage in clarifying your attitude toward people.

Rilke, Rainer Maria (1993-09-17). Letters to a Young Poet (p. 22). W. W. Norton & Company. Kindle Edition. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1029:Wij hebben geen reden tot argwaan tegen onze wereld, want zij is niet tegen ons. Heeft zij verschrikkingen dan zijn het onze verschrikkingen; heeft zij afgronden, dan behoren die afgronden aan ons toe; zijn er gevaren, dan moeten wij proberen ze lief te hebben.
Borgeby Gård Flädie, Zweden, 12 augustus 2017 ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1030:Ich sitze und lese einen Dichter. Es sind viele Leute im Saal, aber man spürt sie nicht. Sie sind in den Büchern. Manchmal bewegen sie sich in den Blättern, wie Menschen, die schlafen und sich umwenden zwischen zwei Träumen. Ach, wie gut ist es doch, unter lesenden Menschen zu sein. Warum ist es nicht immer so? ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1031:If somewhere deep within me arises some essence
of having been a child, one I never experienced,
perhaps the purest childness of my childhood,
I don’t want to know it. Without even looking,
I want to form an angel out of it
and hurl him into the foremost rank
of screaming angels, to remind God. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1032:Things aren't all so tangible and sayable as people would usually have us believe; most experiences are unsayable, they happen in a space that no word has ever entered, and more unsayable than all other things are works of art, those mysterious existences, whose life endures beside our own small, transitory life ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1033:Früher wusste man (oder vielleicht ahnte man es), dass man den Tod in sich hatte wir die Frucht den Kern. Die Kinder hatten einen kleinen und die Erwachsenen einen großen. Die Frauen hatten ihn im Schoß und die Männer in der Brust. Den hatte man, und das gab einem eine eigentümliche Würde und einen stillen Stolz. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1034:I believe in old age; to work and to grow old: this is what life expects of us. And then one day to be old and still be quite far from understanding everything - no, but to begin, but to love, but to suspect, but to be connected to what is remote and inexpressible, all the way up into the stars. (Letters on Life) ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1035:Why don't you conceive of God as an ally who is coming, who has been approaching since time began, the one who will someday arrive, the fruit of a tree whose leaves we are? Why not project his birth into the future, and live your life as an excruciating and lyrical moment in the history of a prodigious pregnancy? ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1036:You don’t survive in me
because of memories;
nor are you mine because
of a lovely longing’s strength.
What does make you present
is the ardent detour
that a slow tenderness
traces in my blood.

I do not need
to see you appear;
being born sufficed for me
to lose you a little less. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1037:How we squander our hours of pain.
How we gaze beyond them into the bitter duration
to see if they have an end. Though they are really
our winter-enduring foliage, our dark evergreen,
one season in our inner year—, not only a season
in time—, but are place and settlement, foundation and soil and home. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1038:I live my life in widening circle
That reach out across the world.
I may not ever complete the last one,
But I give myself to it.

I circle around God, that primordial tower.
I have been circling for thousands of years,
And I still don't know: am I a falcon,
A storm, or a great song? [I, 2] ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1039:The thought of being a creator, of engendering, of shaping is nothing without the continuous great confirmation and embodiment in the world, nothing without the thousandfold assent from Things and animals... beautiful and rich only because it is full of inherited memories of the engendering and birthing of millions. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1040:Translated by Leonard Cottrell
Losing
Losing too is still ours; and even forgetting
still has a shape in the kingdom of transformation.
When something's let go of, it circles; and though we are
rarely the center
of the circle, it draws around us its unbroken, marvelous
curve.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke, Losing
,
1041:Here is the time for the sayable, here
is its home.
Speak and attest. More than ever
the things we can live with are falling
away,
and ousting them, filling their place,
a will with no image.
Will beneath crusts which readily crack
whenever the act inside swells and
seeks new borders. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1042:If only mankind could hold its own fertility in awe, which is one and the same whether it manifests itself in the spirit or in the flesh. For creativity in the spirit has its origins in the physical kind, is of one nature with it and only a more delicate, more rapt and less fleeting version of the carnal sort of sex. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1043:But suppose the endlessly dead were to wake in us some emblem: they might point to the catkins hanging from the empty hazel trees, or direct us to the rain descending on black earth in early spring. --- And we, who always think of happiness rising, would feel the emotion that almost baffles us when a happy thing falls. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1044:Everything must be carried to term before it is born. To let every impression and the germ of every feeling come to completion inside, in the dark, in the unsayable, the unconscious, in what is unattainable to one’s own intellect, and to wait with deep humility and patience for the hour when a new clarity is delivered. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1045:Und der Künstler ist immer noch dieser: ein Tänzer, dessen Bewegung sich bricht an dem Zwang seiner Zelle. Was in seinen Schritten und dem beschrankten Schwung seiner Arme nicht Raum hat, kommt in der Ermattung von seinen Lippen, oder er muß die noch ungelebten Linien seines Leibes mit wunden Fingern in die Wände ritzen. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1046:Even on days when fate wishes to bestow boundless gifts on them, most people make mistakes in accepting: they don’t accept straightforwardly and consequently lose something while doing so, they take with a secondary purpose in mind, or they accept what is given to them as if they were being compensated for something else. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1047:Losing too is still ours; and even forgetting
still has a shape in the kingdom of transformation.
When something's let go of, it circles; and though we are
rarely the center
of the circle, it draws around us its unbroken, marvelous
curve.
Translated by Stephen Mitchell

~ Rainer Maria Rilke, For Hans Carossa
,
1048:Ultimately nobody can help anyone else in life; one has this recurring experience in every conflict and confusion: that one is alone. This is not as bad as it may appear at first glance; it is also the best thing about life that everyone contains everything within himself: his fate, his future, his entire scope and world. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1049:Bir mahluk vardır ki gözüne ilişirse tamamen zararsızdır, farkına varmazsın bile, hemen unutursun. Ama herhangi bir şekilde, görünmeden kulağına kaçarsa orada gelişir, sanki yumurtasından çıkar; beyne kadar ilerlediği ve bu uzuvda, tıpkı köpek pnömokokları gibi yakıp yıkarak büyüdükleri görülür.

Bu yaratık komşudur. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1050:Do not suppose that I am smarting under disappointments. Quite the contrary. At times I am bemused to find how readily I relinquish all my expectations for the sake of reality, even when it is harsh.
My God, if only some of this could be shared. But would it then be, would it be? No, it is only at the price of solitude. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1051:have patience with everything that is unsolved in your heart and try to cherish the questions themselves... Do not search now for the answers which cannot be given you because you could not live them... Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, one distant day live right into the answer. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1052:I do not wish to say that one should love death; but one should love life so magnanimously, so without calculating and selecting, that love of death (the turned-away side of life) is continually and involuntarily included - which actually happens invariably in the great motions of love, which are impetuous and illimitable. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1053:If we imagine our being as a room of any size, it seems that most of us know only a single corner of that room, a spot by the window, a narrow strip on which we keep walking back and forth. That gives a kind of security. But isn't insecurity with all its dangers so much more human?

We are not prisoners of that room. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1054:Tout ce qui nous émeut, tu le partages.
Mais ce qui t'arrive, nous l'ignorons.
Il faudrait être cent papillons
pour lire toutes tes pages.

Il y en a d'entre vous qui sont comme des dictionnaires;
ceux qui les cueillent
ont envie de faire relier toutes ces feuilles.
Moi, j'aime les roses épistolaires. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1055:Préfères-tu, rose, être l'ardente compagne
de nos transports présents?
Est-ce les souvenir qui davantage te gagne
lorsqu'un bonheur se reprend?

Tant de fois je t'ai vue, heureuse et sèche,
- chaque pétale un linceul -
dans un coffret odorant, à côté d'une mèche,
ou dans un livre aimé qu'on relira seul. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1056:At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and again it is the best thing in life that each should have everything in himself; his fate, his future, his whole expanse and world. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1057:Now you feel how nothing clings to you;
your vast shell reaches into endless space, and there the rich, thick fluids rise and flow.
Illuminated in your infinite peace,
a billion stars go spinning through the night, blazinghigh above your head.
But IN you is the presence that will be, when all the stars are dead. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1058:Rose, toute ardente et pourtant claire,
que l'on devrait nommer reliquaire
de Sainte-Rose ..., rose qui distribue
cette troublante odeur de sainte nue.

Rose plus jamais tentée, déconcertante
de son interne paix; ultime amante,
si loin d'Ève, de sa première alerte -,
rose qui infiniment possède la perte. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1059:Ich lebe mein Leben in wachsenden Ringen,
die sich über die Dinge ziehn.
Ich werde den letzten vielleicht nicht vollbringen,
aber versuchen will ich ihn.

Ich kreise um Gott, um den uralten Turm,
und ich kreise jahrtausendelang;
und ich weiß noch nicht: bin ich ein Falke, ein Sturm
oder ein großer Gesang. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1060:There is no force in the world but love, and when you carry it within you, if you simply have it, even if you remain baffled as to how to use it, it will work its radiant effects and help you out of and beyond yourself: one must never lose this belief, one must simply (and if it were nothing else) endure in it! (Letters on Life) ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1061:To let each impression and each germ of a feeling come to completion wholly in itself, in the dark, in the inexpressible, the unconscious, beyond the reach of one’s own intelligence, and await with deep humility and patience the birth-hour of a new clarity: that alone is living the artist’s life: in understanding as in creating. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1062:And if there is one thing more that I must say to you, it is this: Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty and sadness and remains far behind yours. Were it otherwise he would never have been able to find those words. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1063:At no other time (than autumn) does the earth let itself be inhaled in one smell, the ripe earth; in a smell that is in no way inferior to the smell of the sea, bitter where it borders on taste, and more honeysweet where you feel it touching the first sounds. Containing depth within itself, darkness, something of the grave almost. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1064:There would have to be bread, some rich, whole-grain bread and zwieback, and perhaps on a long, narrow dish some pale Westphalian ham laced with strips of white fat like an evening sky with bands of clouds. There would be some tea ready to be drunk, yellowish golden tea in glasses with silver saucers, giving off a faint fragrance. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1065:For our part, when we feel, we
evaporate; ah, we breathe
ourselves out and away; with each new
heartfire
we give off a fainter scent. True,
someone may tell us:
you're in my blood, this room, Spring
itself
is filled with you . . . To what end?
He can't hold us,
we vanish within him and around him. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1066:Only the individual who is solitary is like a thing placed under profound laws, and when he goes out into the morning that is just beginning, or looks out into the evening that is full of happening, and if he feels what is going on there, then all status drops from him as from a dead man, though he stands in the midst of sheer life. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1067:Vielleicht sind gewisse meiner neulich ausgesprochenen Bedenken sehr übertrieben; so viel, wie ich mich kenne, scheint mir sicher, daß, wenn man mir meine Teufel austriebe, auch meinen Engeln ein kleinen, ein ganz kleiner (sagen wir) Schrecken geschähe, - und - fühlen Sie - gerade darauf darf ich es auf keinen Preis ankommen lassen. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1068:Again and again, however we know the landscape of love
and the little churchyard there, with its sorrowing names,
and the frighteningly silent abyss into which the others
fall: again and again the two of us walk out together
under the ancient trees, lie down again and again
among the flowers, face to face with the sky. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1069:Who says that all must vanish?
Who knows, perhaps the flight
of the bird you wound remains,
and perhaps flowers survive
caresses in us, in their ground.

It isn't the gesture that lasts,
but it dresses you again in gold
armor--from breast to knees--
and the battle was so pure
an Angel wears it after you. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1070:If we surrendered to earth’s intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees. Instead we entangle ourselves in knots of our own making and struggle, lonely and confused. So like children, we begin again... to fall, patiently to trust our heaviness. Even a bird has to do that before he can fly. (from the poem "How Sure Gravity's Law") ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1071:It is always what I have already said: always the wish that you may find patience enough in yourself to endure, and simplicity enough to believe; that you may acquire more and more confidence in that which is difficult, and in your solitude among others. And for the rest, let life happen to you. Believe me: life is right, in any case. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1072:Fig tree, how long it's been full meaning for me, the way you almost entirely omit to flower and into the seasonably-resolute fruit uncelebratedly thrust your purest secret. Like the tube of a fountain, your bent bough drives the sap downwards and up: and it leaps from its sleep, scarce waking, into the joy of its sweetest achievement. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1073:If we surrendered
to earth’s intelligence
we could rise up rooted, like trees.

Instead we entangle ourselves
in knots of our own making
and struggle, lonely and confused.

So like children, we begin again...

to fall,
patiently to trust our heaviness.
Even a bird has to do that
before he can fly. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1074:I live my life in growing orbits
which move out over the things of the world.
Perhaps I can never achieve the last,
but that will be my attempt.

I am circling around God, around the ancient tower,
and I have been circling for a thousand years,
and I still don’t know if I am a falcon, or a storm,
or a great song. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1075:Nobody can advise and help you, nobody. There is only one single means. Go inside yourself. Discover the motive that bids you write; examine whether it sends its roots down to the deepest places of your heart, confess to yourself whether you would have to die if writing were denied you. This before all: ask yourself in the quietest hour ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1076:Everything is gestation and bringing forth. To let each impression and each germ of feeling come to completion wholly in itself, in the dark, in the inexpressible, the unconscious, beyond the reach of one's own intelligence, and await with deep humility and patience the birth-hour of a new clarity: that alone is living the artist's life. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1077:I don't invent you
at sadly cooled-off places from which
you've gone away; even your not being there
is warm with you and more real and more
than a privation. Longing leads out too often
into vagueness. Why should I cast myself, when,
for all I know, your influence falls on me,
gently, like moonlight on a window seat. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1078:Pues en cuanto consideramos la existencia de cada individuo como una habitación mayor o menor, queda de manifiesto que los más sólo llegan a conocer apenas un rincón de su aposento. Un sitio junto a la ventana. O bien alguna estrecha faja del entarimado, que van y vienen recorriendo de un lado para otro. Así disfrutan de alguna seguridad… ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1079:Seni ben her şeyin içinde buluyorum, iyilik ve kardeşlik duyduğum şeylerin içinde, en küçüklerinde tohum olarak güneşleniyorsun, büyüklerinde de büyüklüğünü gösteriyorsun. Güçlerin o tansıklı oyunu budur işte, her şeyin içinden böyle yararcasına geçmeleri: köklerinde büyüyüp dallarında yiterek uçlarında da bu dalların yeniden dirilir gibi. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1080:But alas, with poems one accomplishes so little when one writes them early. One should hold off and gather sense and sweetness a whole life long, a long life if possible, and then, right at the end, one could perhaps write ten lines that are good. For poems are not, as people think, feelings (those one has early enough—they are experiences. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1081:Not wooing, no longer shall wooing, voice that has outgrown
it
be the nature of your cry; but instead, you would cry out as
purely as a bird
when the quickly ascending season lifts him up, nearly
forgetting
that he is a suffering creature and not just a single heart
being flung into brightness, into the intimate skies. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1082:A work of art is good if it has grown out of necessity. In this manner of its origin lies its true estimate: there is no other. Therefore, my dear Sir, I could give you no advice but this: to go into yourself and to explore the depths whence your life wells forth; at its source you will find the answer to the question whether you must create. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1083:How oddly akin is the hero to the early dead. Duration
doesn't interest him. For him, only ascent matters, steadfastly
he drives on and enters the altered constellation
of his constant danger. There few would find him. But
fate, which grimly shuts us in silence, suddenly inspired
sings him into the storm of his uproaring world. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1084:And if I have anything else to say to you it is this: do not think that the person who is trying to console you lives effortlessly among the simple, quiet words that sometimes make you feel better. His life is full of troubles and sadness and falls far short of them. But if it were any different he could never have found the words that he did. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1085:MUSIC: Take me by the hand;
it's so easy for you, Angel,
for you are the road
even while being immobile.

You see, I'm scared no one
here will look for me again;
I couldn't make use of
whatever was given,

so they abandoned me.
At first the solitude
charmed me like a prelude,
but so much music wounded me. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1086:Beauty will become paltry and insignificant when one looks for it only in what is pleasing; there it might be found occasionally but it resides and lies awake in each thing where it encloses itself, and it emerges only for the individual who believes that it is present everywhere and who will not move on until he has stubbornly coaxed it forth. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1087:Das Kunstwerk möchte man also erklären: als ein tiefinneres Geständnis, das unter dem Vorwand einer Erinnerung, einer Erfahrung oder eines Ereignisses sich ausgiebt und, losgelöst von seinem Urheber, allein bestehen kann.
Diese Selbständigkeit des Kunstwerkes ist die Schönheit. Mit jedem Kunstwerke kommt ein Neues, ein Ding mehr in die Welt. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1088:You have had many sadnesses, large ones, which passed. ... But please, ask yourself whether these large sadnesses haven't rather gone right through you [that is, passed through you]. Perhaps many things inside you have been transformed; perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while you were sad. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1089:And now let us believe in a long year that is given to us, new, untouched, full of things that have never been, full of work that has never been done, full of tasks, claims, and demands; and let us see that we learn to take it without letting fall too much of what it has to bestow upon those who demand of it necessary, serious, and great things. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1090:Every angel is terrible. And yet, alas
I welcome you, almost fatal birds of the soul,
knowing about you.
...
If the archangel came now, the perilous one,
from the back of the stars but one step lower and
toward us,
our own high beating heart would slay us. Who are you?
You early successes, spoiled darlings of creation... ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1091:TIme and again, however well we know the landscape of love,
and the little church-yard with lamenting names,
and the frightfully silent ravine wherein all the others
end: time and again we go out two together,
under the old trees, lie down again and again
between the flowers, face to face with the sky.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke, Time and Again
,
1092:Contre qui, rose,
avez-vous adopté
ces épines?
Votre joie trop fine
vous a-t-elle forcée
de devenir cette chose
armée?

Mais de qui vous protège
cette arme exagérée?
Combien d’ennemis vous ai-je
enlevés
qui ne la craignaient point?
Au contraire, d’été en automne,
vous blessez les soins
qu’on vous donne. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1093:So many are alive who don’t seem to care. Casual, easy, they move in the world as though untouched. But you take pleasure in the faces of those who know they thirst. You cherish those who grip you for survival. You are not dead yet, it’s not too late to open your depths by plunging into them and drink in the life that reveals itself quietly there. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1094:Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels'hierarchies? and even if one of thempressed me against his heart: I would be consumedin that overwhelming existence. For beauty is nothingbut the beginning of terror, which we still are just able to endure,and we are so awed because it serenely disdainsto annihilate us. Every angel is terrifying. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1095:Among people, particularly those I love, I so easily get talking and give out everything possible in conversation, so that it is not available for my work. It is a stupid piece of clumsiness that I am so wanting in the gift of sociability, the talent for easy but at the same time recreative conversations, in which one does not exert and expend onesel ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1096:There exists only one aloneness, and it is great, and it is not easy to bear. To nearly everyone come those hours that we would gladly exchange for any cheap or even the most banal camaraderie, for even the slightest inclination to choose the second-best or the most unworthy thing. But perhaps it is exactly in those hours when aloneness can flourish. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1097:O trees of life, O when are you wintering?We are not unified. We have no instinctslike those of migratory birds. Useless, and late,we force ourselves, suddenly, onto the wind,and fall down to an indifferent lake.We realise flowering and fading together.And somewhere lions still roam. Never knowing,as long as they have their splendour, of any weakness. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1098:C'est toi qui prépares en toi
plus que toi, ton ultime essence.
Ce qui sort de toi, ton ultime essence.
Ce qui sort de toi, ce troublant émoi,
c'est ta danse.

Chaque pétale consent
et fait dans le vent
quelques pas odorants
invisibles.

Ô musiques des yeux,
toute entourée d'eux,
tu deviens au milieu
intangible. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1099:Is it possible that despite our inventions and progress, despite our culture, religion and knowledge of the world, we have remained on the surface of life? Is it possible that even that surface, which might still have been something, has been covered with unbelievably boring material, leaving it looking like drawing-room furniture in the summer holidays. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1100:And you must be indulgent with the answer, which will perhaps often leave you empty-handed; for ultimately, and precisely in the deepest and most important matters, we are unspeakably alone; and many things must happen, many things must go right, a whole constellation of events must be fulfilled, for one human being to successfully advise or help another. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1101:In one creative thought a thousand forgotten nights of love come to life again and fill it with majesty and exaltation. And those who come together in the nights and are entwined in rocking delight perform a solemn task and gather sweetness, depth, and strength for the song of some future poet, who will appear in order to say ecstasies that are unsayable. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1102:I want my own will, and I want
simply to be with my will,
as it goes toward action.
And in the silent, sometimes hardly moving times,
when something is coming near,
I want to be with those who know
secret things or else alone...
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,
1103:A thought struck me abruptly: My God, you do exist, then. There are proofs of Your existence. I had forgotten them all, and never demanded any either, for what an overwhelming obligation would come with this certainty. And yet that is what is now being shown to me. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (1910), as translated by Michael Hulse (2009), p. 135,
1104:But suppose the endlessly dead were to
wake in us some emblem:
they might point to the catkins hanging
from the empty hazel trees, or direct
us to the rain
descending on black earth in early
spring. ---

And we, who always think of happiness
rising, would feel the emotion
that almost baffles us
when a happy thing falls. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1105:Geloof niet dat degene die u probeert te troosten moeiteloos te midden van de eenvoudige en stille woorden leeft waarbij u menigmaal baat vindt. Diens leven is rijk aan droefenis en verdriet en het blijft ver bij de woorden ten achter. Maar als het anders was, zou hij die woorden nooit hebben kunnen vinden.
Borgeby Gård Flädie, Zweden, 12 augustus 2017 ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1106:Mais si, à force de constance, nous acceptons de subir l'amour comme un dur apprentissage au lieu de nous perdre aux jeux faciles et frivoles qui permettent aux hommes de se dérober à la gravité de l'existence, - alors peut-être un insensible progrès, un certain allégement pourra venir à ceux qui suivront et longtemps encore après nous. Et ce serait beaucoup ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1107:We become so accustomed to you,
we no longer look up
when your shadow falls over the book we are reading
and makes it glow. For all things
sing you: at times
we just hear them more clearly.

Often when I imagine you
your wholeness cascades into many shapes.
You run like a herd of luminous deer
and I am dark, I am forest. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1108:Mit deinen Augen, welche müde kaum
von der verbrauchten Schwelle sich befrein,
hebst du ganz langsam einen schwarzen Baum
und stellst ihn vor den Himmel: schlank, allein.
Und hast die Welt gemacht. Und sie ist groß
und wie ein Wort, das noch im Schweigen reift.
Und wie dein Wille ihren Sinn begreift,
lassen sie deine Augen zärtlich los ... ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1109:My eyes already touch the sunny hill. Going far ahead of the road I have begun. So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp; it has inner light, even from a distance- and charges us, even if we do not reach it, into something else, which, hardly sensing it, we already are; a gesture waves us on answering our own wave... but what we feel is the wind in our faces. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1110:Read as little as possible of literary criticism - such things are either partisan opinions, which have become petrified and meaningless, hardened and empty of life, or else they are just clever word-games, in which one view wins today, and tomorrow the opposite view. Works of art are of an infinite solitude, and no means of approach is so useless as criticism. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1111:This, above all, ask yourself in the stillest hour of the night: must I write? Delve deep into yourself. And if this should be affirmative, if you may meet this question witha strong and simple 'I must' then build your lfie according to this necessity; your life even into its most indifferent and slightest hour must be a sign of this urge and a testimony to it. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1112:Again and again, however we know the landscape of love
and the little churchyard there, with its sorrowing names,
and the frighteningly silent abyss into which the others
fall: again and again the two of us walk out together
under the ancient trees, lie down again and again
among the flowers, face to face with the sky.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke, Again and Again
,
1113:I have my dead and I have let them go
and been surprised, to see them so consoled,
so soon at home in death, just right this way,
so unlike what we hear. Only you, you come
back; you brush against me, you move about, you want
to knock into things, to make them sound of you,
telling me you’re here. Oh don’t take away what
I’m slowly learning. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1114:Only he whose bright lyre
has sounded in shadows
may, looking onward, restore
his infinite praise.

Only he who has eaten
poppies with the dead
will not lose ever again
the gentlest chord.

Though the image upon the pool
often grows dim:
Know and be still.

Inside the Double World
all voices become
eternally mild. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1115:So you mustn't be frightened, dear Mr. Kappus, if a sadness rises in front of you, larger than any you have ever seen; if an anxiety - like light and cloud-shadows, moves over your hands and everything you do. You must realize that something is happening to you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in the palm of its hand and will not let you fall. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1116:Da dürfen Sie ... nicht erschrecken, wenn eine Traurigkeit vor Ihnen sich aufhebt, so groß, wie Sie noch keine gesehen haben; wenn eine Unruhe, wie Licht und Wolkenschatten, über Ihre Hände geht und über all Ihr Tun. Sie müssen denken, daß etwas an Ihnen geschieht, daß das Leben Sie nicht vergessen hat, daß es Sie in der Hand hält; es wird Sie nicht fallen lassen. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1117:Extinguish my eyes, I'll go on seeing you. Seal my ears, I'll go on hearing you. And without feet I can make my way to you, without a mouth I can swear your name. Break off my arms, I'll take hold of you with my heart as with a hand. Stop my heart, and my brain will start to beat. And if you consume my brain with fire, I'll feel you burn in every drop of my blood. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1118:Ask no one to speak of you, not even contemptuously. And when time passes and you notice how your name is spreading around among people, don't take it more seriously than any of the other things you find on their lips. Think: your name has turned bad, and get rid of it. Take on another, any other, so that God can call you in the night. And conceal it from everyone. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1119:O tempo não é uma medida. Um ano não conta, dez anos não representam nada. Ser artista não significa contar, é crescer como a árvore que não apressa a sua seiva e resiste, serena, aos grandes ventos da primavera, sem temer que o verão possa não vir. O verão há de vir. Mas só vem para aqueles que sabem esperar, tão sossegados como se tivessem na frente a eternidade. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1120:Pisałem poezje. Ach, ale poezje to takie nic, kiedy się je pisze za młodu. Powinno się z tem czekać i gromadzić sens i słodycz przez całe jedno ży­cie i to długie o ile możności, a potem, na sa­mym końcu, może potem mogłoby się napisać dziesięć dobrych wierszy. Poezje nie są bowiem, jak ludzie sądzą, uczuciami (uczucia miewa się dość wcześnie) — są doświadczeniami. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1121:Ich finde dich in allen diesen Dingen,] Ich finde dich in allen diesen Dingen, denen ich gut und wie ein Bruder bin; als Samen sonnst du dich in den geringen und in den großen giebst du groß dich hin. Das ist das wundersame Spiel der Kräfte, daß sie so dienend durch die Dinge gehn: in Wurzeln wachsend, schwindend in die Schäfte und in den Wipfeln wie ein Auferstehn. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1122:And when what is near you is far, then your distance is already among the stars and very large; rejoice in your growth, in which you naturally can take no one with you, and be kind to those who remain behind, and be sure and calm before them and do not torment them with your doubts and do not frighten them with Your confidence or joy, which they could not understand. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1123:He began to write a new type of short lyric, which he sometimes called a “Kunst-Ding”: a poem in which the obtrusive interferences of an authorial self and all subjective, accidental occasions have been replaced by an inwardly tensile, self-contained sculptural presence, delimited by strong contours but filled with an utmost of interacting visual and visible reality. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1124:Live for a while in the books you love. Learn from them what is worth learning, but above all love them. This love will be returned to you a thousand times over. Whatever your life may become, these books -of this I am certain- will weave through the web of your unfolding. They will be among the strongest of all threads of your experiences, disappointments, and joys. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1125:You ask me. You have asked others before this. You send them to magazines. You compare them with other poems, and you are upset when certain editors reject your work. Now (since you have said you want my advice) I beg you to stop doing that sort of thing. You are looking outside, and that is what you should most avoid right now. No one can advise or help you — no one ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1126:Success had put me on the wrong track and I did not know that there is a kind of success worse than failure, and a kind of failure worth all the success in the world. Neither did I know that the distant friendship of Rainer Maria Rilke would one day console me for having seen his lamp burn without knowing that it was signalling me to go and singe my wings against its flame. ~ Jean Cocteau,
1127:Gefährlich und schlecht sind nur jene Traurigkeiten, die man unter die Leute trägt, um sie zu übertönen; wie Krankheiten, die oberflächlich und töricht behandelt werden, treten sie nur zurück und brechen nach einer kleinen Pause um so furchtbarer aus; und sammeln sich an im Innern und sind Leben, sind ungelebtes, verschmähtes, verlorenes Leben, an dem Man sterben kann. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1128:Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels’ hierarchies? and even if one of them pressed me suddenly against his heart: I would be consumed in that overwhelming existence. For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we still are just able to endure, and we are so awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us. Every angel is terrifying.     And ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1129:I would like to beg of you, dear friend, as well as I can, to have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1130:Painting is something that takes place among the colors, and one has to leave them alone completely, so that they can settle the matter among themselves. Their intercourse: this is the whole of painting. Whoever meddles, arranges, injects his human deliberation, his wit, his advocacy, his intellectual agility in any way, is already disturbing and clouding their activity. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1131:Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels'
hierarchies? and even if one of them
pressed me against his heart: I would be consumed
in that overwhelming existence. For beauty is nothing
but the beginning of terror, which we still are just able to endure,
and we are so awed because it serenely disdains
to annihilate us. Every angel is terrifying. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1132:I am learning to see. I don't know why it is, but everything enters me more deeply and doesn't stop where it once used to. I have an interior that I never knew of... What's the use of telling someone that I am changing? If I'm changing, I am no longer who I was; and if I am something else, it's obvious that I have no acquaintances. And I can't possibly write to strangers. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1133:POEMS by Rainer Maria Rilke (Rilke, Rainer Maria ) - Your Highlight Location 656-659 | Added on Monday, June 10, 2013 8:15:58 AM Extinguish my eyes, I still can see you, Close my ears, I can hear your footsteps fall, And without feet I still can follow you, And without voice I still can to you call. Break off my arms, and I can embrace you, Enfold you with my heart as with a hand. ~ Anonymous,
1134:The longer i live, the more urgent it seems to me to endure and transcribe the whole dictation of existence up to its end, for it might just be the case that only the very last sentence contains that small and possibly inconspicuous word through which everything we had struggled to learn and everything we had failed to understand will be transformed into magnificent sense. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1135:Early this morning I read about your autumn, and all the colors you brought into your letter were changed back in my feelings and filled my mind to the brim with strength and radiance.
Yesterday, while I was admiring the dissolving brightness of autumn here, you were walking through that other autumn back home, which is painted on red wood, as this one’s painted on silk. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1136:You have had many and great sadnesses, which passed. And you say that even this passing was hard for you and put you out of sorts. But, please, consider whether these great sadnesses have not rather gone right through the center of yourself? Whether much in you has not altered, whether you have not somewhere, at some point of your being, undergone a change when you were sad? ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1137:Yes, he knew that we was withdrawing from everything: not merely from human beings. A moment more and everything will have lost its meaning, and that table and the cup, and the chair to which he clings, all the near and the commonplace, will have become unintelligible, strange and heavy. So he sat there and waited until it should have happened. And defended himself no longer. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1138:You don't survive in me
because of memories;
nor are you mine because
of a lovely longing's strength.

What does make you present
is the ardent detour
that a slow tenderness
traces in my blood.

I do not need
to see you appear;
being born sufficed for me
to lose you a little less.
Translated by A. Poulin

~ Rainer Maria Rilke, Interior Portrait
,
1139:Everything is gestation and then bringing forth. To let each impression and each germ of a feeling come to completion wholly in itself, in the dark, in the inexpressible, the unconscious, beyond the reach of one’s own intelligence, and await with deep humility and patience the birth-hour of a new clarity: that alone is living the artist’s life: in understanding as in creating. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1140:I confess that I consider life to be a thing of the most untouchable deliciousness, and that even the confluence of so many disasters and deprivations, the exposure of countless fates, everything that insurmountably increased for us over the past few years to become a still rising terror cannot distract me from the fullness and goodness of existence that is inclined toward us. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1141:Lovers, if Angels could understand them, might utter
strange things in the midnight air. For it seems that everything's
trying to hide us. Look, the trees exist; the houses
we live in still stand where they were. We only
pass everything by like a transposition of air.
And all combines to suppress us, partly as shame,
perhaps, and partly as inexpressible hope. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1142:I believe that almost all our sorrows are moments of tension which we experience as a paralysis, because we no longer hear our estranged feelings living. Because we are alone with the strange thing that has entered into us; because for a moment everything familiar and customary has been taken from us; because we stand in the middle of a crossing where we cannot remain standing. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1143:But because truly being here is so much; because everything here apparently needs us, this fleeting world, which in some strange way keeps calling to us. Us, the most fleeting of all. Once for each thing. Just once; no more. And we too, just once. And never again. But to have been this once, completely, even if only once: to have been at one with the earth, seems beyond undoing. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1144:O trees of life, O when are you wintering?
We are not unified. We have no instincts
like those of migratory birds. Useless, and late,
we force ourselves, suddenly, onto the wind,
and fall down to an indifferent lake.
We realise flowering and fading together.
And somewhere lions still roam. Never knowing,
as long as they have their splendour, of any weakness. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1145:Perhaps the great renewal of the world will consist of this, that man and woman, freed of all confused feelings and desires, shall no longer seek each other as opposites, but simply as members of a family and neighbors, and will unite as human beings, in order to simply, earnestly, patiently, and jointly bear the heavy responsibility of sexuality that has been entrusted to them. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1146:Live for a while in these books, learn from them what you feel is worth learning, but most of all love them. This love will be returned to you thousands upon thousands of times, whatever your life may become — it will, I am sure, go through the while fabric of your becoming, as one of the most important threads among all the threads of your experiences, disappointments, and joys. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1147:I find you, Lord, in all Things and in all
my fellow creatures, pulsing with your life;
as a tiny seed you sleep in what is small
and in the vast you vastly yield yourself.

The wondrous game that power plays with Things
is to move in such submission through the world:
groping in roots and growing thick in trunks
and in treetops like a rising from the dead. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1148:People have (with the help of conventions) oriented all their solutions toward the easy and toward the easiest side of the easy; but it is clear that we must hold to what is difficult; everything alive holds to it, everything in Nature grows and defends itself in its own way and is characteristically and spontaneously itself, seeks at all costs to be so and against all opposition. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1149:You, most lonely, most remote: how they have appropriated you for your fame. How long ago was it that they were bitterly against you, and now they embrace you as one of their own. And they carry your words around with them in the cages of their darkness and trot them out in public squares and poke them a little from within their sense of security. All your terrible beasts of prey. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1150:How should we be able to forget those myths that are at the beginning of all peoples, the myths about dragons that at the last moment turn into princesses; perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1151:Take me by the hand;
it's so easy for you, Angel,
for you are the road
even while being immobile.

You see, I'm scared no one
here will look for me again;
I couldn't make use of
whatever was given,

so they abandoned me.
At first the solitude
charmed me like a prelude,
but so much music wounded me.
Translated by A. Poulin

~ Rainer Maria Rilke, Music
,
1152:The longer I live, the more urgent it seems to me to endure and transcribe the whole dictation of existence up to its end, for it might just be the case that only the very last sentence contains that small and possibly inconspicuous word through which everything we had struggled to learn and everything we had failed to understand will be transformed suddenly into magnificent sense. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1153:You darkness, that I come from, I love you more than all the fires that fence in the world, for the fire makes a circle of light for everyone, and then no one outside learns of you. But the darkness pulls in everything: shapes and fires, animals and myself, how easily it gathers them! - powers and people - and it is possible a great energy is moving near me. I have faith in nights. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1154:Everything is gestation and then birthing. To let each impression and each embryo of a feeling come to completion in itself, in the dark, in the unsayable, the unconscious, beyond the reach of one's own understanding, and with deep humility and patience to wait for the hour when a new clarity is born: this alone is what it means to live as an artist: in understanding as in creating. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1155: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; like diseases that are treated superficially and foolishly, they just withdraw and after a short interval break out again all the more terribly; and gather inside us and are life, are life that is unlived, rejected, lost, life that we can die of. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1156:They all have tired mouths and bright seamless souls. And a longing (as for sin) sometimes haunts their dreams. They are almost all alike; in God's gardens they keep still, like many, many intervals in his might and melody. Only when they spread their wings are they wakers of a wind: as if God with his broad sculptor- hands leafed through the pages in the dark book of the beginning. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1157:O hour of my muse: why do you leave me,
Wounding me by the wingbeats of your flight?
Alone: what shall I use my mouth to utter?

How shall I pass my days? And how my nights?

I have no one to love. I have no home.
There is no center to sustain my life.
All things to which I give myself grow rich
and leave me spent, impoverished, alone.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke, The Poet
,
1158:Who says that all must vanish?
Who knows, perhaps the flight
of the bird you wound remains,
and perhaps flowers survive
caresses in us, in their ground.

It isn't the gesture that lasts,
but it dresses you again in gold
armor from breast to knees
and the battle was so pure
an Angel wears it after you.
Translated by A. Poulin

~ Rainer Maria Rilke, What Survives
,
1159:Harshness vanished. A sudden softness
has replaced the meadows' wintry grey.
Little rivulets of water changed
their singing accents. Tendernesses,

hesitantly, reach toward the earth
from space, and country lanes are showing
these unexpected subtle risings
that find expression in the empty trees.
Translated by Albert Ernest Flemming

~ Rainer Maria Rilke, Early Spring
,
1160:Ich glaube, daß fast alle unsere Traurigkeiten Momente der Spannung sind, die wir als Lähmung empfinden, weil wir unsere befremdeten Gefühle nicht mehr leben hören. Weil wir mit dem Fremden, das bei uns eingetreten ist, allein sind, weil uns alles Vertraute und Gewohnte für einen Augenblick fortgenommen ist; weil wir mitten in einem Übergang stehen, wo wir nicht stehen bleiben können. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1161:try to have love for the questions themselves, like locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Do not seek out the answers now, which cannot be given to you because it you cannot live them. And what matters is to live everything. Live the questions for now. Perhaps then, without noticing it, you will gradually come, on some far-off day, to live your way into the answer. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1162:The leaves are falling, falling as if from far up,as if orchards were dying high in space.Each leaf falls as if it were motioning "no."And tonight the heavy earth is fallingaway from all other stars in the loneliness.We're all falling. This hand here is falling.And look at the other one. It's in them all.And yet there is Someone, whose handsinfinitely calm, holding up all this falling. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1163:Lullaby"


Someday if I lose you,
how will you sleep without
my whispering above you
like the linden’s branches?

Without my lying here
awake and placing words, almost
like eyelids, on your breasts,
your limbs, your lips.

Without my closing you
and leaving you alone with what is yours
like a garden with a mass
of mint-balm and star-anise. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1164:Think... of the world you carry within you, and call this thinking whatever you want to: a remembering of your own childhood or a yearning toward a future of your own - only be attentive to what is arising within you, and place that above everything you perceive around you. What is happening in your innermost self is worthy of your entire love; somehow you must find a way to work at it. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1165:To transcend the ego does not mean, for Rilke, to enter into a spiral of radical self-doubt and philosophical skepticism or to open the floodgates of unconscious desire and irrationality. It means to be swept up by the movement of one’s heart (or soul, if you like, or serotonin levels) without ever reaching a state where this movement will lose its purpose and desire by being fulfilled. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1166:All who seek you
test you.
And those who find you
bind you to image and gesture.

I would rather sense you
as the earth senses you.
In my ripening
ripens
what you are.

I need from you no tricks
to prove you exist.
Time, I know,
is other than you.

No miracles, please.
Just let your laws
become clearer
from generation to generation. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1167:¿Cómo habríamos de olvidar esos antiguos mitos que están en el comienzo de todos los pueblos, los mitos de los dragones que, en el momento supremo, se transforman en princesas? Quizás todos los dragones de nuestra vida son princesas que esperan sólo eso, vernos una vez hermosos y valientes. Quizás todo lo espantoso, en su más profunda base, es lo inerme, lo que quiere auxilio de nosotros. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1168:How could we forget those ancient myths that stand at the beginning of all races, the myths about dragons that at the last moment are transformed into princesses? Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1169:I don’t want to stand before you like a thing, shrewd, secretive. I want my own will, and I want simply to be with my will, as it goes toward action. And in the silent, sometimes hardly moving times, when something is coming near, I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone. 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,
1170:so much is happening now; you must be patient like someone who is sick, and confident like someone who is recovering; for perhaps you are both. And more: you are also the doctor, who has to watch over himself. But in every sickness there are many days when the doctor can do nothing but wait. And that is what you, insofar as you are your own doctor, must now do, more than
anything else. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1171:And if what is near you is far away, then your vastness is already among the stars and is very great; be happy about your growth, in which of course you can't take anyone with you, and be gentle with those who stay behind; be confident and calm in front of them and don't torment them with your doubts and don't frighten them with your faith or joy, which they wouldn't be able to comprehend. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1172:Nous sommes en avant tout à fait comme des nostalgies. C'est au loin, dans des arrière-plans éclatants, qu'ont lieu nos épanouissements. C'est là que sont mouvement et volonté. C'est là que se situent les histoires dont nous sommes des titres obscurs. C'est là qu'ont lieu nos accords, nos adieux, consolation et deuil. C'est là que nous sommes, alors qu'au premier plan nous allons et venons. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1173:sometimes a man stands up during supper and walks outdoors, and keeps on walking, because of a church that stands somewhere in the East. And his children say blessings on him as if he were dead. And another man, who remains inside his own house, stays there, inside the dishes and in the glasses, so that his children have to go far out into the world toward that same church, which he forgot. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1174:Temples are no longer known. It is we who secretly save up
these extravagances of the heart. Where one of them still
survives,
a Thing that was formerly prayed to, worshipped, knelt
before--
just as it is, it passes into the invisible world.
Many no longer perceive it, yet miss the chance
to build it inside themselves now, with pillars and statues:
greater. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1175:Extinguish my eyes, I'll go on seeing you.
Seal my ears, I'll go on hearing you.
And without feet I can make my way to you,
without a mouth I can swear your name.

Break off my arms, I'll take hold of you
with my heart as with a hand.
Stop my heart, and my brain will start to beat.
And if you consume my brain with fire,
I'll feel you burn in every drop of my blood. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1176:It is also good to love: because love is difficult. For one human being to love another human being: that is perhaps the most difficult task that has been entrusted to us, the ultimate task, the final test and proof, the work for which all other work is merely preparation. That is why young people, who are beginners in everything, are not yet capable of love: it is something they must learn. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1177:… People have (with the help of conventions) oriented all their solutions toward the easy and toward the easiest side of the easy; but it is clear that we must hold to what is difficult; everything in Nature grows and defends itself in its own way and is characteristically and spontaneously itself, seeks at all costs to be so and against all opposition. —Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet ~ Alice Walker,
1178:THE WAIT: It is life in slow motion,
it's the heart in reverse,
it's a hope-and-a-half:
too much and too little at once.

It's a train that suddenly
stops with no station around,
and we can hear the cricket,
and, leaning out the carriage

door, we vainly contemplate
a wind we feel that stirs
the blooming meadows, the meadows
made imaginary by this stop. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1179:Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answers. —Rainer Maria Rilke, LETTER TO A YOUNG POET T ~ Joan Anderson,
1180:Interior of the hand. Sole that has come to walk only on feelings. That faces upward and in its mirror receives heavenly roads, which travel along themselves. That has learned to walk upon water when it scoops, that walks upon wells, transfiguring every path. That steps into other hands, changes those that are like it into a landscape: wanders and arrives within them, fills them with arrival. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1181:I think there was a conflict, a mutual struggle between the two procedures of, first, looking and confidently perceiving, and then of appropriating and making personal use of what has been perceived; that the two, perhaps as a result of becoming conscious, would immediately start opposing each other, talking out loud, as it were, and go on perpetually interrupting and contradicting each other. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1182:Put out my eyes, and I can see you still;
slam my ears to, and I can hear you yet;
and without any feet can go to you;
and tongueless, I can conjure you at will.
Break off my arms, I shall take hold of you
and grasp you with my heart as with a hand;
arrest my heart, my brain will beat as true;
and if you set this brain of mine afire,
upon my blood I then will carry you. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1183:We discover that we do not know our role; we look for a mirror; we want to remove our make-up and take off what is false and real. But somewhere a piece of disguise that we forgot still sticks to us. A trace of exaggeration remains in our eyebrows; we do not notice that the corners of our mouth are bent. And so we walk around, a mockery and a mere half: neither having achieved being nor actors. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1184:Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further. The further one goes, the more private, the more personal, the more singular an experience becomes, and the thing one is making is, finally, the necessary, irrepressible, and as nearly as possible, the definitive utterance of this singularity. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1185:What else can I tell you? It seems to me that everything has its proper emphasis; and finally I want to add just one more bit of advice: to keep growing, silently and earnestly, through your whole development; you couldn't disturb it any more violently than by looking outside and waiting for outside answers to questions that only your innermost feeling, in your quietest hour, can perhaps answer. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1186:Nothing can touch a work of art less than critical words; all that comes of that are more or less fortunate misunderstandings. Things are not as easy to understand and say as we might prefer to believe; most events are inexpressible, happening in a space where no word has ever set foot, and most inexpressible of all are works of art, mysterious existences, whose life continues as ours passes away. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1187:The Lovers
See how in their veins all becomes spirit;
into each other they mature and grow.
Like axles, their forms tremblingly orbit,
round which it whirls, bewitching and aglow.
Thirsters, and they receive drink,
watchers, and see: they receive sight.
Let them into one another sink
so as to endure each other outright.
Translated by John J.L.Mood

~ Rainer Maria Rilke, The Lovers
,
1188:But if the endlessly dead awakened a symbol in us,
perhaps they would point to the catkins hanging from the
bare
branches of the hazel-trees, or
would evoke the raindrops that fall onto the dark earth in
springtime.--

And we, who have always thought
of happiness as rising, would feel
the emotion that almost overwhelms us
whenever a happy thing falls. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1189:Go into yourself and test the deeps in which your life takes rise; at its source you will find the answer to the question whether you must create. Accept it, just as it sounds, without inquiring into it. Perhaps it will turn out that you are called to be an artist. Then take that destiny upon yourself and bear it, its burden and its greatness, without ever asking what reward might come from outside ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1190:And if out of this turning-within, out of this immersion in your own world, poems come, then you will not think of asking anyone whether they are good or not. Nor will you try to interest magazines in these works: for you will see them as your dear natural possession, a piece of your life, a voice from it. A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1191:How good it is to be among reading people. Why are they not always like that? You can go up to one of them and touch him lightly; he feels nothing. And if in rising, you chance to bump lightly against a neighbor and excuse yourself, he nods toward the side from which he hears your voice, his face turns toward you and does not see you, and his hair is like that of a man asleep. How comforting that is. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1192:We have no reason to mistrust our world, for it is not against us. Has it terrors, they are our terrors; has it abysses, those abysses belong to us; are dangers at hand, we must try to love them.... Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1193:His gaze, blunted
by the unnumbered procession
of iron bars, uncounted
as his softly padded steps.

Smooth motion of blood and sinew
turning in its own, small circle
prescribed by bars and walls
...and skin, confined.

Suddenly, without warning,
a flash of light and image
pierces the caged brain,
and passing through its beating heart
to stillness finds its way. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1194:For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1195:World was in the face of the beloved--,
but suddenly it poured out and was gone:
world is outside, world can not be grasped.

Why didn't I, from the full, beloved face
as I raised it to my lips, why didn't I drink
world, so near that I couldn't almost taste it?

Ah, I drank. Insatiably I drank.
But I was filled up also, with too much
world, and, drinking, I myself ran over. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1196:And these Things,
which live by perishing, know you are praising them; transient,
they look to us for deliverance: us, the most transient of all.
They want us to change them, utterly, in our invisible heart,
within - oh endlessly - within us! Whoever we may be at last.
Earth, isn't this what you want: to arise within us,
invisible? Isn't it your dream
to be wholly invisible someday? ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1197:For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1198:Lösch mir die Augen aus: ich kann dich sehn,
wirf mir die Ohren zu: ich kann dich hören,
und ohne Füße kann ich zu dir gehn,
und ohne Mund noch kann ich dich beschwören.
Brich mir die Arme ab, ich fasse dich
mit meinem Herzen wie mit einer Hand,
halt mir das Herz zu, und mein Hirn wird schlagen,
und wirfst du in mein Hirn den Brand,
so werd ich dich auf meinem Blute tragen. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1199:Sanat, kişilerin, yalnızların içlerini doldurmak için bir araçtır; bunun böyle olduğunu biliyor musunuz siz? Napoleon, dışa doğru ne ise, sanatçı da içe doğru odur… Sanat özgürlüğe götüren bir yoldur; bunun böyle olduğunu biliyor musunuz siz? Uzaktaki dünyaların olgunlaşarak nasıl tanrı olacaklarını bilmiyorum. Ama bizim için sanat, bu tanrılığa götüren bir yoldur… Tanrı soyundan olduğumuzu sanıyorum ben. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1200:perhaps the sexes are more closely related than we think, and the great renewal of the world will perhaps consist in man and woman, freed of all sense of error and disappointment, seeking one another out not as opposites but as brothers and sisters and neighbours, and they will join together as human beings, to share the heavy weight of sexuality that is laid upon them with simplicity, gravity and patience. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1201:May I strike my heart's keys clearly, and may none fail because of slack, uncertain, or fraying strings. May the tears that stream down my face make me more radiant: may my hidden weeping bloom.... How we waste our afflictions!... [T]hey're really our wintering foliage, our dark greens of meaning, one of the seasons of the clandestine year—; not only a season—: they're site, settlement, shelter, soil, abode. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1202:Songs of longing!

And they will resound in my letters, just as they always have, sometimes loudly and sometimes secretly so that you alone can hear them… But they will also be different — different from how they used to be, these songs. For I have turned and found longing at my side, and I have looked into her eyes, and now she leads me with a steady hand.”

―from a letter to Lou Andreas-Salome ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1203:Autumn"

The leaves fall, fall as from far,
Like distant gardens withered in the heavens;
They fall with slow and lingering descent.

And in the nights the heavy Earth, too, falls
From out the stars into the Solitude.

Thus all doth fall. This hand of mine must fall
And lo! the other one:—it is the law.
But there is One who holds this falling
Infinitely softly in His hands. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1204:I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each shall stand guard over the solitude of the other. For, if it lies in the nature of indifference and of the crowd to recognize no solitude, then love and friendship are there for the purpose of continually providing the opportunity for solitude. And only those are the true sharings which rhythmically interrupt periods of deep isolation. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1205:... read as little as possible in the way of aesthetics and criticism - it will either be partisan views, fossilized and made meaningless in its lifeless rigidity, or it will be neat wordplay, where one opinion will triumph one day and the opposite the next. Works of art are infinitely solitary and nothing is less likely to reach them than criticism. Only love can grasp them and hold them and do them justice. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1206:Somehow I had a premonition of what I so often felt at later times: that you did not have the right to open a single book unless you engaged to read them all. With every line you read, you were breaking off a portion of the world. Before books, the world was intact, and afterwards it might be restored to wholeness once again. But how was I, who could not read, to take up the challenge laid down by all of them? ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1207:And perhaps the sexes are more closely related than we think, and the great renewal of the world will perhaps consist in man and woman, freed of all sense of error and disappointment, seeking one another out not as opposites but as brothers and sisters and neighbours, and they will join together as human beings, to share the heavy weight of sexuality that is laid upon them with simplicity, gravity and patience. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1208:...
Bizlerse: Seyirci, her zaman, her yerde,
bizler her şeye dönük, hiç dışına çıkmadan!
Ağzımıza dek doluyuz. Düzenliyoruz. Parçalanıyor.
Düzenliyoruz yine, biz parçalanıyoruz.

Kim bizleri böylesine ters çevirmiş,
her ne yapsak yola çıkan
birini andırıyoruz? O nasıl
son tepeden bir daha görünce koyağını,
döner, duraklar ve oyalanırsa-,
öyle yaşıyoruz biz de, vedalaşıyoruz hep. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1209:It is not inertia alone that is responsible for human relationships repeating themselves from case to case, indescribably monotonous and unrenewed: it is shyness before any sort of new, unforeseeable experience with which one does not think oneself able to cope. But only someone who is ready for everything, who excludes nothing, not even the most enigmatical will live the relation to another as something alive. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1210:Moving Forward"

The deep parts of my life pour onward,
as if the river shores were opening out.
It seems that things are more like me now,
that I can see farther into paintings.
I feel closer to what language can’t reach.
With my sense, as with birds, I climb
into the windy heaven, out of the oak,
and in the ponds broken off from the sky
my feeling sinks, as if standing on fishes. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1211:Ah, Malte, mi tako koračamo kroz život i čini mi se da smo svi rasejani i zabevljani i da ne obraćamo pažnju kako valja da koračamo. Kao da pada zvezda, a niko je ne vidi i niko nije ništa poželeo. Nemoj nikad zaboraviti da nešto poželiš, Malte. Želeti, od toga nikad ne treba dići ruke. Verujem da nema ispunjenja, ali ima želja koje dugo traju, celoga života, tako da se ispunjenje zacelo ne bi ni moglo dočekati. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1212:And one of the things I find most moving is the way people with infirmities manage to embrace Life, and from the cool flowers by the wayside reach conclusions about the vast splendour of its great gardens. They can, if their souls' strings are finely tuned, arrive with much less effort at the feeling of eternity; for everything we do, they may dream. And precisely where our deeds end, theirs begin to bear fruit. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1213:Sex is difficult, yes. But they are difficult things with which we have been charged...If you only recognize this and manage out of yourself, out of your own nature and ways, out of your own experience and childhood and strength to achieve a relation to sex wholly your own (not influenced by convention and custom) then you need no longer be afraid of losing yourself and becoming unworthy of your best possession. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1214:The deep parts of my life pour onward,
as if the river shores were opening out.
It seems that things are more like me now,
That I can see farther into paintings.
I feel closer to what language can't reach.
With my senses, as with birds, I climb
into the windy heaven, out of the oak,
in the ponds broken off from the sky
my falling sinks, as if standing on fishes.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke, Moving Forward
,
1215:Nikad ne treba očajavati, kad se nešto izgubi, osoba ili radost ili sreća; sve se još divnije vraća. Što otpasti mora, otpada, što nama pripada, uz nas ostaje, jer sve se po zakonima odvija, koji su veći od naše spoznaje i s kojima smo samo naočigled u suprotnosti. Treba u sebi živeti i na celi život misliti, na sve svoje milijone mogućnosti, širine i budućnosti, naspram kojih ne postoji ni prošlo niti izgubljeno. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1216:She who did not come, wasn't she determined
nonetheless to organize and decorate my heart?
If we had to exist to become the one we love,
what would the heart have to create?

Lovely joy left blank, perhaps you are
the center of all my labors and my loves.
If I've wept for you so much, it's because
I preferred you among so many outlined joys.
Translated by A. Poulin

~ Rainer Maria Rilke, Blank Joy
,
1217:The carriages drove right through me, and hurrying people did not swerve aside for me and ran over me full of contempt, as over a bad place in which stale water has collected....O what a world it is! Pieces, pieces of people, parts of animals, remains of finished things, and everything still on the move, driving about as if in an uncanny wind, carried and carrying, falling and catching themselves up in their fall. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1218:We have no reason to mistrust our world, for it is not against us. Has it terrors, they are our terrors; has it abysses, those abysses belong to us; are dangers at hand, we must try to love them… How should we be able to forget those ancient myths about dragons that at the least moment turn into princesses; perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1219:[...] si disponemos nuestra vida según el principio que nos aconseja mantenernos siempre en lo difícil, lo que nos parecía extraño, se nos transformará en algo infinitamente fiel y digno de toda confianza. [...] Quizá todos los dragones de nuestra vida sean princesas que sólo esperan vernos una vez hermosos y valientes. Quizá todo lo horrible, en el fondo, sea sólo una forma de desamparo que solicita nuestra ayuda. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1220:The one so loved that a single lyre
raised more lament than lamenting women ever did;
and that from the lament a world arose in which
everything was there again: woods and valley
and path and village, field and river and animal;
and around this lament-world, just as
around the other earth, a sun
and a starry silent heaven turned,
a lament-heaven of disordered stars -- :
This one so loved. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1221:Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force its sap and stands confident in the storms of spring without the fear that after them may come no summer. It does come. But it comes only to the patient, who are there as though eternity lay before them, so unconcernedly still and wide. I learn it daily, learn it with pain to which I am grateful: patience is everything! ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1222:My life is not this steeply sloping hour, in which you see me hurrying. Much stands behind me; I stand before it like a tree; I am only one of my many mouths, and at that, the one that will be still the soonest. I am the rest between two notes, which are somehow always in discord because Death’s note wants to climb over— but in the dark interval, reconciled, they stay there trembling. And the song goes on, beautiful. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1223:Who shows a child, just as they are? Who sets it
in its constellation, and gives the measure
of distance into its hand? Who makes a child’s death
out of grey bread, that hardens, - or leaves it
inside its round mouth like the core
of a shining apple? Killers are
easy to grasp. But this: death,
the whole of death, before life,
to hold it so softly, and not live in anger,
cannot be expressed. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1224:You, you only, exist.
We pass away, till at last,
our passing is so immense
that you arise: beautiful moment,
in all your suddenness,
arising in love, or enchanted
in the contraction of work.

To you I belong, however time may
wear me away. From you to you
I go commanded. In between
the garland is hanging in chance; but if you
take it up and up and up: look:
all becomes festival! ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1225:sometimes a man stands up during supper
and walks outdoors, and keeps on walking,
because of a church that stands somewhere in the East.

And his children say blessings on him as if he were dead.

And another man, who remains inside his own house,
stays there, inside the dishes and in the glasses,
so that his children have to go far out into the world
toward that same church, which he forgot. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1226:Greek Love-Talk
What I have already learned as a lover,
I see you, beloved, learning angrily;
then for you it distantly departed,
now your destiny stands in all the stars.

Over your breasts we will together contend:
since as glowingly shining they've ripened,
so also your hands desire to touch them
and their own pleasure superintend.
Translated by John J.L. Mood

~ Rainer Maria Rilke, Greek Love-Talk
,
1227:perhaps the sexes are more akin than people think, and the great
renewal of the world will perhaps consist in one phenomenon: that man and
woman, freed from all mistaken feelings and aversions, will seek each other not as
opposites but as brother and sister, as neighbors, and will unite as human beings,
in order to bear in common, simply, earnestly, and patiently, the heavy sex that
has been laid upon them. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1228:There is but one solitude, and that is great and not easy to bear, and to almost everybody come hours when they would gladly exchange it for any sort of intercourse, however banal and cheap, for the semblance of some slight accord with the first comer, with the unworthiest... But perhaps those are the very hours when solitude grows; for its growing is painful as the growing of boys and sad as the beginning of springtimes. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1229:And we, spectators always, everywhere, looking at, never out of, everything! It fills us. We arrange it. It collapses. We re-arrange it, and collapse ourselves. Who's turned us round like this, so that we always, do what we may, retain the attitude of someone who's departing? Just as he, on the last hill, that shows him all his valley for the last time, will turn and stop and linger, we live our lives, for ever taking leave. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1230:Love at first is nothing like merging, surrendering, and uniting with a second person (for what would a union be with something undefined and unfinished, still disordered—?); it is a high incentive for the individual to ripen, to become something in himself, to become a world, to become a world for himself for the sake of another, it is a large, demanding claim on him, something that elects him and calls him into the distance. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1231:They all have tired mouths
and bright seamless souls.
And a longing (as for sin)
sometimes haunts their dreams.

They are almost all alike;
in God's gardens they keep still,
like many, many intervals
in his might and melody.

Only when they spread their wings
are they wakers of a wind:
as if God with his broad sculptor-
hands leafed through the pages
in the dark book of the beginning. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1232:You are so young, so before all beginning, and I want to beg you, as much as I can, dear sir, to be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1233:To Lou: I want to see the world through you; for then I shall not be seeing the world but only you, you you! I have never seen you without thinking that I should like to pray to you. I have never heard you without thinking that I should like to believe in you. I have never longed for you without thinking that I should like to suffer for you. I have never desired you without thinking that I should be allowed to kneel before you. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1234:At last, after weeks of daily fending off, you get your bearings back, and somewhat dazed you tell yourself: No, there is not more beauty here than elsewhere, and all these objects which generation after generation have continued to admire, which inexpert hands have mended and restored, they mean nothing, and are nothing and have no heart and no value; but there is a great deal of beauty here, because there is beauty everywhere. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1235:To be an artist means: not to calculate and count; to grow and ripen like a tree which does not hurry the flow of its sap and stands at ease in the spring gales without fearing that no summer may follow. It will come. But it comes only to those who are patient, who are simply there in their vast, quiet tranquility, as if eternity lay before them. It is a lesson I learn every day amid hardships I am thankful for: patience is all! ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1236:You darkness, that I come from,
I love you more than all the fires
that fence in the world,
for the fire makes
a circle of light for everyone,
and then no one outside learns of you.

But the darkness pulls in everything:
shapes and fires, animals and myself,
how easily it gathers them! -
powers and people -

and it is possible a great energy
is moving near me.

I have faith in nights. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1237:And so I check myself and swallow the luring call
of dark sobs. Alas, whom can we turn to
in our need? Not angels, not humans,
and the sly animals see at once
how little at home we are
in the interpreted world. That leaves us
some tree on a hillside, on which our eyes fasten
day after day; leaves us yesterday’s street
and the coddled loyalty of an old habit
that liked it here, stayed on, and never left. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1238:It is life in slow motion,
it's the heart in reverse,
it's a hope-and-a-half:
too much and too little at once.

It's a train that suddenly
stops with no station around,
and we can hear the cricket,
and, leaning out the carriage

door, we vainly contemplate
a wind we feel that stirs
the blooming meadows, the meadows
made imaginary by this stop.
Translated by A. Poulin

~ Rainer Maria Rilke, The Wait
,
1239:My eyes already touch the sunny hill.
going far beyond the road I have begun,
So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp;
it has an inner light, even from a distance-

and changes us, even if we do not reach it,
into something else, which, hardly sensing it,
we already are; a gesture waves us on
answering our own wave
but what we feel is the wind in our faces.
Translated by Robert Bly
~ Rainer Maria Rilke, A Walk
,
1240:Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1241:Interior of the hand. Sole that has come to walk
only on feelings. That faces upward
and in its mirror
receives heavenly roads, which travel
along themselves.
That has learned to walk upon water
when it scoops,
that walks upon wells,
transfiguring every path.
That steps into other hands,
changes those that are like it
into a landscape:
wanders and arrives within them,
fills them with arrival. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1242:Put out my eyes, and I can see you still,
Slam my ears to, and I can hear you yet;
And without any feet can go to you;
And tongueless, I can conjure you at will.
Break off my arms, I shall take hold of you
And grasp you with my heart as with a hand;
Arrest my heart, my brain will beat as true;
And if you set this brain of mine afire,
Then on my blood-stream I yet will carry you.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke, Put Out My Eyes
,
1243:we are continually overflowing toward those who preceded us, toward our origin, and toward those who seemingly come after us. ... It is our task to imprint this temporary, perishable earth into ourselves so deeply, so painfully and passionately, that its essence can rise again “invisibly,” inside us. We are the bees of the invisible. We wildly collect the honey of the visible, to store it in the great golden hive of the invisible. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1244:May I strike my heart's keys clearly, and may none fail
because of slack, uncertain, or fraying strings.
May the tears that stream down my face
make me more radiant: may my hidden weeping
bloom.... How we waste our afflictions!...
[T]hey're really
our wintering foliage, our dark greens of meaning, one
of the seasons of the clandestine year—; not only
a season—: they're site, settlement, shelter, soil, abode. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1245:Hoe zouden wij die oude mythen kunnen vergeten die aan de wieg van alle volkeren staan – de mythen over draken die op het allerlaatste ogenblik in een prinses veranderen; misschien zijn alle draken uit ons leven wel prinsessen die er alleen maar op wachten ons eens mooi en moedig te zien. Misschien is al het verschrikkelijkste in diepste wezen wel het hulpeloze dat ons om hulp vraagt.
Borgeby Gård Flädie, Zweden, 12 augustus 2017 ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1246:...We of the here-and-now are not for a moment satisfied in the world of time, nor are we bound in it; we are continually overflowing toward those who preceded us, toward our origin, and toward those who seemingly come after us. In that vast "open" world, all beings *are*―one cannot say "contemporaneous," for the very fact that time has ceased determines that they all *are*."

―from letter to Witold Hulewicz (November 13, 1929) ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1247:…As one puts a handkerchief before pent-in-breath-
no: as one presses it against a wound
out of which the whole of life, in a single gush,
wants to stream, I held you to me: I saw you
turn red from me. How could anyone express
what took place between us? We made up for everything
there was never time for. I matured strangely
in every impulse of unperformed youth,
and you, love, had wildest childhood over my heart… ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1248:Art too is just a way of living, and however one lives, one can, without knowing, prepare for it; in everything real one is closer to it, more its neighbor, than in the unreal half-artistic professions, which, while they pretend to be close to art, in practice deny and attack the existence of all art - as, for example, all of journalism does and almost all criticism and three quarters of what is called (and wants to be called) literature. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1249:Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings. Things aren't all so tangible and sayable as people would usually have us believe; most experiences are unsayable, they happen in a space that no word has ever entered, and more unsay able than all other things are works of art, those mysterious existences, whose life endures beside our own small, transitory life. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1250:So don't be frightened, dear friend, if a sadness confronts you larger than any you have ever known, casting its shadow over all you do. You must think that something is happening within you, and remember that life has not forgotten you; it holds you in its hand and will not let you fall. Why would you want to exclude from your life any uneasiness, any pain, any depression, since you don't know what work they are accomplishing within you? ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1251:Is it possible that there are people who say "God" and suppose they mean something shared by all? — Only consider two schoolboys: one of them buys a knife, and the other buys an identical one on the same day. And a week later, they show each other the two knives, and they turn out to be only remotely similar, so differently have they been shaped by different hands. ... Is it possible to believe we could have a god without making use of him? ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1252:Accetta dunque [...] un bacio con tutto il cuore nella solenne ora di Natale, la più pacata dell'anno, la più misteriosa, in cui i desideri ancora ignari si tendono fino all'estremo e vengono per prodigio esauditi: [...] abbandona ogni dubbio e incomprensione: in quest'ora abbiamo un posticino dentro di noi dove siamo semplicemente bambini, che attende e sta là, fiducioso e mai confuso, nel suo diritto a una grande gioia: questo è il Natale. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1253:For it is not inertia alone
that is responsible for human relationships repeating
themselves from case to case, indescribably monotonous and
unrenewed: it is shyness before any sort of new,unforeseeable
experience with which one does not think oneself able to cope.

But only someone who is ready for everything, who excludes
nothing, not even the most enigmatical, will live the relation
to another as something alive. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1254:There is only one solitude, and it is great and is not easy to bear, and to almost everyone there come hours when they would gladly exchange it for some kind of communion, however banal and cheap, for the appearance of some slight harmony with the most easily available, with the most undeserving… But perhaps those are just the hours when solitude grows; for its growing is painful like the growing of boys and sad like the beginning of Spring. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1255:We have no reason to harbor any mistrust against our world, for it is not against us. If it has terrors, they are our terrors; if it has abysses, these abysses belong to us; if there are dangers, we must try to love them. And if only we arrange our life in accordance with the principle which tells us that we must always trust in the difficult, then what now appears to us as the most alien will become our most intimate and trusted experience. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1256:It is possible I am pushing through solid rock, like the vein of ore encased, alone. I am such a long way in I can see no way through and no space. Everything is close to my face and everything close to my face is stone. I don't have much knowledge yet in grief, so this darkness makes me feel small. You, be the Master; Make yourself fierce; break in. And then your great transforming will happen to me And my great grief cry will happen to you. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1257:We can so easily slip back from what we have struggled to attain, abruptly, into a life we never wanted; can find that we are trapped, as in a dream, and die there, without ever waking up. This can occur. Anyone who has lifted his blood into a years-long work may find that he can't sustain it, the force of gravity is irresistible, and it falls back, worthless. For somewhere there is an ancient enmity between our daily life and the great work. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1258:Whoever now weeps somewhere in the world,
weeps without reason in the world,
weeps over me.

Whoever now laughs somewhere in the night,
laughs without reason in the night,
laughs at me.

Whoever now wanders somewhere in the world,
wanders without reason out in the world,
wanders toward me.

Whoever now dies somewhere in the world,
dies without reason in the world,
looks at me.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke, Solemn Hour
,
1259:You, Beloved, who are all the gardens I have ever gazed at, longing. An open window in a country house - , and you almost stepped out, pensive, to meet me. Streets that I chanced upon, - you had just walked down them and vanished. And sometimes, in a shop, the mirrors were still dizzy with your presence and, startled, gave back my too-sudden image. Who knows? Perhaps the same bird echoed through both of us yesterday, separate, in the evening. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1260:There is only one solitude, and it is great and is not easy to bear, and to almost everyone there come hours when they would gladly exchange it for some kind of communion, however banal and cheap, for the appearance of some slight harmony with the most easily available, with the most undeserving… . But perhaps those are just the hours when solitude grows; for its growing is painful like the growing of boys and sad like the beginning of Spring. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1261:Unknowing before the heavens of my life/ I stand in wonder. O the great stars./ The rising and the going down. How quiet./ As if I didn't exist. Am I part? Have I dismissed/ the pure influence? Do high and low tide/ alternate in my blood according to this order?/ I will cast off all wishes, all other links,/ accustom my heart to its remotest space. Better/ it live in the terror of its stars than/ seemingly protected, soothed by something near. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1262:Be happy about your growth, in which of course you can’t take anyone with you, and be gentle with those who stay behind; be confident and calm in front of them and don’t torment them with your doubts and don’t frighten them with your faith or joy, which they wouldn’t be able to comprehend. Seek out some simple and true feeling of what you have in common with them, which doesn’t necessarily have to alter when you yourself change again and again; ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1263:I have a notion that, at big fires, a moment of extreme suspense can sometimes occur, when the jets of water slacken off, the firemen no longer climb, no one moves a muscle. Without a sound, a high black wall of masonry cants over up above, the fire blazing behind it, and, without a sound, leans, about to topple. Everyone stands waiting, shoulders tensed, faces drawn in around their eyes, for the terrible crash. That is how the silence is here. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1264:‎Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.
So you mustn’t be frightened, if a sadness rises in front of you, larger than any you have ever seen; if an anxiety, like light and cloud-shadows, moves over your hands and over everything you do. You must realize that something is happening to you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand and will not let you fall. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1265:If you were to give yourself over to this angel, Rilke tells the reader, some day, some night, the angel’s light hands kämen denn … dich ringender zu prüfen, und gingen wie Erzürnte durch das Haus und griffen dich als ob sie dich erschüfen und brächen dich aus deiner Form heraus. would come more fiercely to interrogate you, and rush to seize you blazing like a star, and bend you as if trying to create you, and break you open, out of who you are. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1266:Were it possible for us to see further than our knowledge reaches, and yet a little way beyond the outworks of our divinings, perhaps we would endure our sadnesses with greater confidence than our joys. For they are the moments when something new has entered into us, something unknown; our feelings grow mute in shy perplexity, everything in us withdraws, a stillness comes, and the new, which no one knows, stands in the midst of it and is silent. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1267:And if you were in some prison the walls of which let none of the sounds of the world come to your senses—would you not then still have your childhood, that precious, kingly possession, that treasure-house of memories? Turn your attention thither. Try to raise the submerged sensations of that ample past; your personality will grow more firm, your solitude will widen and will become a dusky dwelling past which the noise of others goes by far away. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1268:She who reconciles the ill-matched threads of her life, and weaves them gratefully into a single cloth— it’s she who drives the loudmouths from the hall and clears it for a different celebration   where the one guest is you. In the softness of evening it’s you she receives.   You are the partner of her loneliness, the unspeaking center of her monologues. With each disclosure you encompass more and she stretches beyond what limits her, to hold you. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1269:Timeless sea breezes,
sea-wind of the night:
you come for no one;
if someone should wake,
he must be prepared
how to survive you.

Timeless sea breezes,
that for aeons have
blown ancient rocks,
you are purest space
coming from afar

Oh, how a fruit-bearing
fig tree feels your coming
high up in the moonlight.
(Capri, Piccola Marina)

Translated by Albert Ernest Flemming
~ Rainer Maria Rilke, Song Of The Sea
,
1270:Interior of the hand. Sole that has come to walk
only on feelings. That faces upward
and in its mirror
receives heavenly roads, which travel
along themselves.
That has learned to walk upon water
when it scoops,
that walks upon wells,
transfiguring every path.
That steps into other hands,
changes those that are like it
into a landscape:
wanders and arrives within them,
fills them with arrival.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke, Palm
,
1271:The leaves are falling, falling as if from far up,
as if orchards were dying high in space.
Each leaf falls as if it were motioning "no."

And tonight the heavy earth is falling
away from all other stars in the loneliness.

We're all falling. This hand here is falling.
And look at the other one. It's in them all.

And yet there is Someone, whose hands
infinitely calm, holding up all this falling.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke, Autumn
,
1272:And that is why it is so important to be solitary and attentive when one is sad: because the seemingly uneventful and motionless moment when our future steps into us is so much closer to life than that other loud and accidental point of time when it happens to us as if from outside. The quieter we are, the more patient and open we are in our sadnesses, the more deeply and serenely the new presence can enter us, and the more we can make it our own... ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1273:We have no reason to mistrust our world, for it is not against us. Has it terrors, they are our terrors; has it abysses, those abysses belong to us; are dangers at hand, we must try to love them….How should we be able to forget those ancient myths about dragons that at the last moment turn into princesses; perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. —RAINER MARIA RILKE, LETTERS TO A YOUNG POET ~ Rolf Potts,
1274:My life is not this steeply sloping hour,
in which you see me hurrying.
Much stands behind me; I stand before it like a tree;
I am only one of my many mouths,
and at that, the one that will be still the soonest.

I am the rest between two notes,
which are somehow always in discord
because Death’s note wants to climb over—
but in the dark interval, reconciled,
they stay there trembling.
And the song goes on, beautiful. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1275:There exists a creature which is perfectly harmless; when it passes before your eyes you scarcely notice it and forget it again immediately. But as soon as it invisibly gets somehow into your ears, it develops there, it hatches, as it were, and cases have been known where it was penetrated even into the brain and has thriven devastatingly in that organ, like those pneumococci in dogs that gain entrance through the nose.This creature is one's neighbor. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1276:If two people managed not to get stuck in hatred during their honest struggles with each other, that is, in the edges of their passion that became ragged and sharp when it cooled and set, if they could stay fluid, active, flexible, and changeable in all of their interactions and relations, and, in a word, if a mutually human and friendly consideration remained available to them, then their decision to separate cannot easily conjure disaster and terror. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1277:It is clear that we must trust what is difficult; everything alive trusts in it, everything in Nature grows and defends itself any way it can and is spontaneously itself, tries to be itself at all costs and against all opposition. 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,
1278:it is clear that we must trust what is difficult; everything alive trusts in it, everything in Nature grows and defends itself any way it can and is spontaneously itself, tries to be itself at all costs and against all opposition. 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,
1279:Memory Is Not Enough

Memory is not enough…
I do not recollect. What I am
is alive in me because of you. I do not reinvent you
at sadly cooled-off places you have left behind.
Even your absence is filled
with your warmth and is more real
than your not-existing. Longing often meanders
into vagueness. Why should I throw myself away
when something in you may be
touching me, very lightly, like moonlight
on a window seat. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1280:To love is also good: because love is difficult. For one person to love another: that is perhaps the hardest thing that is handed to us, the utmost, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. That is why young people, who are beginners in everything, cannot love: they have to learn it. With their whole being, with all their powers, gathered around their solitary, anxious, upward-beating heart, they must learn to love. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1281:Love at first has nothing to do with unfolding, abandon and uniting with another person (for what would be the sense in a union of what is unrefined and unfinished, still second order?); for the individual it is a grand opportunity to mature, to become something in himself, to become a world, to become a world in himself for another’s sake; it is a great immoderate demand made upon the self, something that singles him out and summons him to vast designs. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1282:And we, spectators always, everywhere,
looking at, never out of, everything!
It fills us. We arrange it. It collapses.
We re-arrange it, and collapse ourselves.

Who's turned us round like this, so that we always,
do what we may, retain the attitude
of someone who's departing? Just as he,
on the last hill, that shows him all his valley
for the last time, will turn and stop and linger,
we live our lives, for ever taking leave. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1283:FALLING STARS: Do you remember still the falling stars that like swift horses through the heavens raced and suddenly leaped across the hurdles of our wishes -- do you recall? And we did make so many! For there were countless numbers of stars: each time we looked above we were astounded by the swiftness of their daring play, while in our hearts we felt safe and secure watching these brilliant bodies disintegrate, knowing somehow we had survived their fall. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1284:There exists a creature which is perfectly harmless; when it passes before your eyes you scarcely notice it and forget it again immediately. But as soon as it invisibly gets somehow into your ears, it develops there, it hatches, as it were, and cases have been known where it was penetrated even into the brain and has thriven devastatingly in that organ, like those pneumococci in dogs that gain entrance through the nose.
This creature is one's neighbor. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1285:I look over at my hero shelf and see Philip Levine, Rainer Maria Rilke, Virginia Woolf, Shunryu Suzuki, Adrienne Rich, Pablo Neruda, Subcomandante Marcos, Eduardo Galeano, James Baldwin. These books are, if they are instructions at all, instructions in extending our identities out into the world, human and nonhuman, in imagination as a great act of empathy that lifts you out of yourself, not locks you down into your gender.
(“80 Books No Woman Should Read”) ~ Rebecca Solnit,
1286:To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. Love is a high inducement to the individual to ripen, to become something in himself, to become world for himself for another's sake, it is a great exacting claim upon him, something that chooses him out and calls him to vast things. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1287:We have to be committed not to miss or neglect any opportunity to suffer, to have an experience, or to be happy; our soul arises refreshed from all of that. It has a resting place at those heights that are difficult to reach, and it is at home where one can advance no further: up there we have to carry it. But as soon as we put it down for dead at those extreme spots it awakens and takes flight into skies and celestial depths that from now on belong to us. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1288:If you trust in Nature, in the small Things that hardly anyone sees and that can so suddenly become huge, immeasurable; if you have this love for what is humble and try very simply, as someone who serves, to win the confidence of what seems poor: then everything will become easier for you, more coherent and somehow more reconciling, not in your conscious mind perhaps, which stays behind, astonished, but in your innermost awareness, awakeness, and knowledge. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1289:To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation...Love is a high inducement to the individual to ripen, to become something in himself, to become world for himself for another's sake, it is a great exacting claim upon him, something that chooses him out and calls him to vast things. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1290:If your everyday life seems to lack material, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to summon up its riches, for there is no lack for him who creates and no poor, trivial place. And even if you were in a prison whose walls did not let any sound of the world outside reach your senses - would you not have your childhood still, this marvellous, lavish source, this treasure-house of memories? Turn your attention towards that. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1291:Something is true only next to something else, and I always think the world has been conceived of with sufficient space to encompass everything: that which has been does not need to be cleared from its spot but only needs to be gradually transformed, just as whatever is yet to occur does not fall from the skies at the last moment but resides always already right next to us, around us and within our heart, waiting for the cue that will summon it to visibility. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1292:So much has been written (both well and poorly) about things that the things themselves no longer hold an opinion but appear only to mark the imaginary point of intersection for certain clever theories. Whoever wants to say anything about them speaks in reality only about the views of his predecessors and lapses into a semipolemical spirit that stands in exact opposition to the naïve productive spirit with which each object wants to be grasped and understood. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1293:All feelings that concentrate you and lift you up are pure; only that feeling is impure which grasps just one side of your being and thus distorts you. Everything you can think of as you face your childhood, is good. Everything that makes more of you than you have ever been, even in your best hours, is right. Every intensification is good, if it is in your entire blood, if it isn't intoxication or muddiness, but joy which you can see into, clear to the bottom. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1294:Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1295:If you trust in Nature, in the small Things that hardly anyone sees and that can so suddenly become huge, immeasurable; if you have this love for what is humble and try very simply, as someone who serves, to win the confidence of what seems poor: then everything will become easier
for you, more coherent and somehow more reconciling, not in your conscious mind perhaps, which stays behind, astonished, but in your innermost awareness, awakeness, and knowledge. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1296:And still it is not enough to have memories. One must be able to forget them when they are many, and one must have the great patience to wait until they come again. For it is not yet the memories themselves. Not until they have turned to blood within us, to glance, to gesture, nameless and no longer to be distinguished from ourselves - not until then can it happen that in a most rare hour the first word of a verse arises in their midst and goes forth from them. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1297:DER SCHWAN Diese Mühsal, durch noch Ungetanes schwer und wie gebunden hinzugehn, gleicht dem ungeschaffnen Gang des Schwanes. Und das Sterben, dieses Nichtmehrfassen jenes Grunds, auf dem wir täglich stehn, seinem ängstlichen Sich-Niederlassen—: in die Wasser, die ihn sanft empfangen und die sich, wie glücklich und vergangen, unter ihm zurückziehn, Flut um Flut; während er unendlich still und sicher immer mündiger und königlicher und gelassener zu ziehn geruht. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1298:rejoice in your growth, in which you naturally can take no one with you, and be kind to those who remain behind, and be sure and calm before them and do not torment them with your doubts and do not frighten them with your confidence or joy, which they could not understand. Seek yourself some sort of simple and loyal community with them, which need not necessarily change as you yourself become different and again different; love in them life in an unfamiliar form ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1299:Y a la vez quede expresado aquí el ruego: lea lo menos que pueda cosas estético-críticas: o son opiniones partidistas, petrificadas y vaciadas de sentido en su endurecimiento contra la vida, o son hábiles juegos de palabras, en que hoy se saca una opinión y mañana la opuesta. Las obras de arte son de una infinita soledad, y con nada se pueden alcanzar menos que con la crítica. Sólo el amor puede captarlas y retenerlas, y sólo él puede tener razón frente a ellas. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1300:God speaks to each of us as he makes us, then walks with us silently out of the night. These are the words we dimly hear: You, sent out beyond your recall, go to the limits of your longing. Embody me. Flare up like a flame and make big shadows I can move in. Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final. Don't let yourself lose me. Nearby is the country they call life. You will know it by its seriousness. Give me your hand. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1301: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, already lived,
and held like a legend, and understood.

Then the knowing comes: I can open
to another life that’s wide and timeless.

So I am sometimes like a tree
rustling over a gravesite
and making real the dream
of the one its living roots
embrace:
a dream once lost
among sorrows and songs. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1302:Y a la vez quede expresado aquñi el ruego: lea lo menos que pueda cosas estético-críticas: o son opiniones partidistas, petrificadas y vaciadas de sentido en su endurecimiento contra la vida, o son hábiles juegos de palabras, en que hoy se saca una opinión y mañana la opuesta. Las obras de arte son de una infinita soledad, y con nada se pueden alcanzar menos que con la crítica. Sólo el amor puede captarlas y retenerlas, y sólo él puede tener razón frente a ellas. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1303:Bodily delight is a sense experience, just like pure seeing or the pure feeling with which a lovely fruit fills the tongue; it is a great boundless experience which is given us, a knowing of the world, the fullness and the splendour of all knowing. Our acceptance of it is not bad; what is bad is that almost all men misuse and squander this experience, and apply it as a stimulus to the weary places of their life, a dissipation instead of a rallying for the heights. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1304:Here is no thoroughly mature and clean sex world, but one that is not sufficiently human, that is only male, is heat, intoxication and restlessness, and laden with the old prejudices and arrogances with which man has disfigured and burdened love. Because he loves as man only, not as human being, for this reason there is in his sexual feeling something narrow, seeming wild, spiteful, time-bound, uneternal, that diminishes his art and makes it ambiguous and doubtful. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1305:A world will come over you, the happiness, the abundance, the incomprehensible immensity of a world. Live a while in these books, learn from them what seems to you worth learning, but above all love them. This love will be repaid you a thousand and a thousand times, and however your life may turn,—it will, I am certain of it, run through the fabric of your growth as one of the most important threads among all the threads of your experience, disappointments and joys. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1306:To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. For this reason young people, who are beginners in everything, cannot yet know love: they have to learn it. With their whole being, with all their forces, gathered close about their lonely, timid, upward-beating heart, they must learn to love. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1307:A man taken out of his room and, almost without preparation or transition, placed on the heights of a great mountain range, would feel something like that: an unequalled insecurity, an abandonment to the nameless, would almost annihilate him. He would feel he was falling or think he was being catapulted out into space or exploded into a thousand pieces: what a colossal lie his brain would have to invent in order to catch up with and explain the situation of his senses. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1308:Finally, after weeks of daily resistance, one finds oneself somewhat composed
again, even though still a bit confused, and one says to oneself: No, there is not
more beauty here than in other places, and all these objects, which have been
marveled at by generation after generation, mended and restored by the hands of
workmen, mean nothing, are nothing, and have no heart and no value; — but
there is much beauty here, because everywhere there is much beauty ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1309:Depict your sorrows and desires, your passing thoughts and beliefs in some kind of beauty- depict all that with heartfelt, quiet, humble sincerity and use to express yourself the things that surround you,the images of your dreams and the objects of your memory. If your everyday life seems poor to you, do not accuse it; accuse yourself, tell yourself you are not poet enough to summon up its riches; since for the creator there is no poverty and no poor or unimportant place. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1310:I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. 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 even noticing it, live your way into the answer. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1311:Nothing could be less conducive to reaching an art-work than critical remarks:it's always simply a matter of more or less fortunate misunderstandings. Everything cannot be so easily grasped and conveyed as we are generally led to believe; most events are unconveyable and come to pass in a space that no word has ever penetrated; more unconveyable than all else are art-works, whose mysterious existences, whose lives run alongside ours, which perishes, whereas theirs endure. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1312:Whether it be the singing of a lamp or the voice of a storm, whether it be the breath of an evening or the groan of the ocean — whatever surrounds you, a broad melody always wakes behind you, woven out of a thousand voices, where there is room for your own solo only here and there. To know when you need to join in: that is the secret of your solitude: just as the art of true interactions with others is to let yourself fall away from high words into a single common melody. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1313:Whoever you are: in the evening step out of your room, where you know everything; yours is the last house before the far-off: whoever you are. With your eyes, which in their weariness barely free themselves from the worn-out threshold, you lift very slowly one black tree and place it against the sky: slender, alone. And you have made the world. And it is huge and like a word which grows ripe in silence. And as your will seizes on its meaning, tenderly your eyes let it go. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1314:Perhaps it's no more than the fire's reflection
on some piece of gleaming furniture
that the child remembers so much later
like a revelation.

And if in his later life, one day
wounds him like so many others,
it's because he mistook some risk
or other for a promise.

Let's not forget the music, either,
that soon had hauled him
toward absence complicated
by an overflowing heart.
Translated by A. Poulin

~ Rainer Maria Rilke, Fire's Reflection
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1315:Mécontent de tous et mécontent de moi, je voudrais bien me racheter et m’enorguiellir un peu dans le silence et la solitude de la nuit. Âmes de ceux que j’ai aimés, âmes de ceux que j’ai chantés, fortifiez-moi, éloignez de moi le mensonge et les vapeurs corruptices du monde; et vous, Seigneur mon Dieu! accordez-moi la grâce de produire quelques beaux vers qui me prouvent à moi même que je ne suis pas le dernier des hommes, que je ne suis pas inférieur à ceux que je méprise. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1316:All companionship can consist in only the strengthening of neighboring solitudes, giving oneself is by nature harmful to companionship: for when a person abandons himself, he is no longer anything, and when two people both give themselves up in order to become closer to each other, there is no longer any ground beneath them and their being together is a continual falling – I have learned over and over again, there is scarcely anything more difficult than to love one another. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1317:But everything that we encounter is so very much of one piece, and so intimately related to everything else, and has given birth to itself, grows, and is then raised so much to come into its own, that we basically just need to be there, if only unassumingly, if only authentically, the way the earth is there in its affirmation of the seasons, light and dark and wholly in space, longing to be supported by nothing but that web of influences and forces where the stars feel secure. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1318:I am thinking of a summer on the Baltic when I was a child: how talkative I was to sea and forest; how, filled with unaccustomed exuberance, I tried to leap over all limits with the hasty excitement of my words. And how, as I had to take my leave on a morning in September, I saw that we never give utterance to what is final and most blessed, and that all my rhapsodic Table d’hote conversations did not approach either my inchoate feelings or the ocean’s eternal self-revelation. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1319:No, we don't accomplish our love in a single year as the flowers do; an immemorial sap flows up through our arms when we love. Dear girl, this: that we loved, inside us, not One who would someday appear, but seething multitudes; not just a single child, but also the fathers lying in our depths like fallen mountains; also the dried-up riverbeds of ancient mothers-;also the whole soundless landscape under the clouded or clear sky of its destiny -; all this, my dear, preceded you. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1320:And about feelings: All feelings that concentrate you and lift you up are pure; only that feeling is impure which grasps just one side of your being and thus distorts you. Everything you can think of as you face your childhood, is good. Everything that makes more of you than you have ever been, even in your best hours, is right. Every intensification is good, if it is in your entire blood, if it isn’t intoxication or muddiness, but joy which you can see into, clear to the bottom. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1321:Mora biti da je to bilo jedno od onih ranih jutara kakvih ima u julu, sa onim mladim, odmornim časovima u kojima se svuda dešava neka vesela nepromišljenost. Od miliona malih pokreta koji se ne mogu potisnuti sklapa se mozaik najubeđenijeg postojanja; stvari trepte jedna u drugu i van sebe u vazduh i njihova svežina čini senku jasnom i pretvara sunce u lagan, duhovni sjaj. Tada u bašti nema ničega što je glavno; sve je svuda, i čovek bi morao biti u svemu da ništa ne bi propustio. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1322:FALLING STARS: Do you remember still the falling stars
that like swift horses through the heavens raced
and suddenly leaped across the hurdles
of our wishes -- do you recall? And we
did make so many! For there were countless numbers
of stars: each time we looked above we were
astounded by the swiftness of their daring play,
while in our hearts we felt safe and secure
watching these brilliant bodies disintegrate,
knowing somehow we had survived their fall. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1323:World was in the face of the beloved,
but suddenly it poured out and was gone:
world is outside, world can not be grasped.

Why didn't I, from the full, beloved face
as I raised it to my lips, why didn't I drink
world, so near that I couldn't almost taste it?

Ah, I drank. Insatiably I drank.
But I was filled up also, with too much
world, and, drinking, I myself ran over.
Translated by Stephen Mitchell

~ Rainer Maria Rilke, World Was In The Face Of The Beloved
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1324:I am so afraid of people's words.They describe so distinctly everything: And this they call dog and that they call house, here the start and there the end. I worry about their mockery with words, they know everything, what will be, what was; no mountain is still miraculous; and their house and yard lead right up to God. I want to warn and object: Let the things be! I enjoy listening to the sound they are making. But you always touch: and they hush and stand still. That's how you kill. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1325:If you hold close to nature, to what is simple in it, to the small things people hardly see and which all of a sudden can become great and immeasurable; if you have this love for what is slight, and quite unassumingly, as a servant, seek to win the confidence of what seems poor – then everything will grow easier, more unified and somehow more conciliatory, not perhaps in the intellect, which, amazed, remains a step behind, but in your deepest consciousness, watchfulness and knowledge. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1326:If you trust in Nature, in what is simple in Nature, in the small Things that hardly anyone sees and that can so suddenly become huge, immeasurable; if you have this love for what is humble and try very simply, as someone who serves, to win the confidence of what seems poor: then everything will become easier for you, more coherent and somehow more reconciling, not in your conscious mind perhaps, which stays behind, astonished, but in your innermost awareness, awakeness, and knowledge, ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1327:Physical pleasure is a sensual experience no different from pure seeing or the pure sensation with which a fine fruit fills the tongue; it is a great unending experience, which is given us, a knowing of the world, the fullness and the glory of all knowing. And not our acceptance of it is bad; the bad thing is that most people misuse and squander this experience and apply it as a stimulant at the tired spots of their lives and as distraction instead of a rallying toward exalted moments. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1328:How I will cherish you then, you grief-torn nights! Had I only received you, inconsolable sisters, on more abject knees, only buried myself with more abandon in your loosened hair. How we waste our afflictions! We study them, stare out beyond them into bleak continuance, hoping to glimpse some end. Whereas they're really our wintering foliage, our dark greens of meaning, one of the seasons of the clandestine year -- ; not only a season --: they're site, settlement, shelter, soil, abode. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1329:My whole life is mine, but whoever says so
will deprive me, for it is infinite.
The ripple of water, the shade of the sky
are mine; it is still the same, my life.

No desire opens me: I am full,
I never close myself with refusal-
in the rhythm of my daily soul
I do not desire-I am moved;

by being moved I exert my empire,
making the dreams of night real:
into my body at the bottom of the water
I attract the beyonds of mirrors...

~ Rainer Maria Rilke, My Life
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1330:Think, dear Sir, of the world that you carry inside you, and call this thinking whatever you want to: a remembering of your own childhood or a yearning toward a future of your own — only be attentive to what is arising within you, and place that above everything you perceive around you. What is happening on your innermost self is worthy of your entire love; somehow you must find a way to work at it, and not lose too much time or too much courage in clarifying your attitude toward people. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1331:You, Beloved, who are all
the gardens I have ever gazed at,
longing. An open window
in a country house-- , and you almost
stepped out, pensive, to meet me. Streets that I chanced
upon,--
you had just walked down them and vanished.
And sometimes, in a shop, the mirrors
were still dizzy with your presence and, startled, gave back
my too-sudden image. Who knows? Perhaps the same
bird echoed through both of us
yesterday, separate, in the evening... ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1332:THE SWAN

This laboring of ours with all that remains undone,
as if still bound to it,
is like the lumbering gait of the swan.

And then our dying — releasing ourselves
from the very ground on which we stood —
is like the way he hesitantly lowers himself

into the water. It gently receives him,
and, gladly yielding, flows back beneath him,
as wave follows wave,
while he, now wholly serene and sure,
with regal composure,
allows himself to glide. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1333:Encircled by her arms as by a shell,
she hears her being murmur,
while forever he endures
the outrage of his too pure image

Wistfully following their example,
nature re-enters herself;
contemplating its own sap, the flower
becomes too soft, and the boulder hardens

It's the return of all desire that enters
toward all life embracing itself from afar
Where does it fall? Under the dwindling
surface, does it hope to renew a center?

~ Rainer Maria Rilke, Narcissus
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1334:I believe that all aesthetic observation that is not immediate accomplishment will be impossible from now on, — basically impossible, for example, to 'admire pictures' in a church, […] You would not believe at all,[…] how different, how different the world has become, the point is to understand that. Whoever thinks he can live from now on as he was 'accustomed' to live, will find himself continually facing the sheerest repetition, the bare once-again and its whole desperate unfruitfulness. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1335:I believe that all aesthetic observation that is not immediate accomplishment will be impossible from now on, — basically impossible, for example, to 'admire pictures' in a church, […] You would not believe at all,[…] how different, how different the world has become, the point is to understand that. Whoever thinks he can live from now on as he was “accustomed” to live, will find himself continually facing the sheerest repetition, the bare once-again and its whole desperate unfruitfulness. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1336:Though the world keeps changing its form
as fast as a cloud, still
what is accomplished falls home
to the Primeval.

Over the change and the passing,
larger and freer,
soars your eternal song,
god with the lyre.

Never has grief been possessed,
never has love been learned,
and what removes us in death

is not revealed.
Only the song through the land
hallows and heals.
Translated by Stephen Mitchell

~ Rainer Maria Rilke, The Sonnets To Orpheus - XIX
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1337:dinanzi a Te, mio Dio, nell'interno dinanzi a Te, spettatore: non siamo noi senza azione? Scopriamo, sì, che non sappiamo la parte, cerchiamo uno specchio, vorremmo struccarci ed eliminare il falso ed essere veramente. Ma qua e là ci resta ancora attaccato un pezzo di travestimento, che dimentichiamo. Una traccia di esagerazione rimane nelle nostre sopracciglia, non notiamo che gli angoli della bocca sono piegati. E andiamo in giro così, zimbelli e creature dimezzate: né uomini veri né attori. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1338:If you will cling to Nature, to the simple in Nature, to the little things that hardly anyone sees, and that can so unexpectedly become big and beyond measuring; if you have this love of inconsiderable things and seek quite simply, as one who serves, to win the confidence of what seems poor: then everything will become easier, more coherent and somehow more conciliatory for you, not in your intellect, perhaps, which lags marveling behind, but in your inmost consciousness, waking and cognizance. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1339:SENSE OF SOMETHING COMING: I am like a flag in the center of open space.
I sense ahead the wind which is coming, and must live
it through.
while the things of the world still do not move:
the doors still close softly, and the chimneys are full
of silence,
the windows do not rattle yet, and the dust still lies down.

I already know the storm, and I am troubled as the sea.
I leap out, and fall back,
and throw myself out, and am absolutely alone
in the great storm. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1340:And isn't the whole world yours? For how often you set it on fire with your love and saw it blaze and burn up and secretly replaced it with another world while everyone slept. You felt in such complete harmony with God, when every morning you asked him for a new earth, so that all the ones he had made could have their turn. You thought it would be shabby to save them and repair them; you used them up and held out your hands, again and again, for more world. For your love was equal to everything. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1341:If people took some simple pleasure in reality (which is entirely independent of time), they would never have needed to come up with the idea that they could ever again lose anything with which they had truly bonded. No constellation is as steadfast, no accomplishment as irrevocable as a connection between human beings which, at the very moment it becomes visible, works more forcefully in those invisible depths where our existence is as lasting as gold lodged in stone, more constant than a star. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1342:Rainer Maria Rilke greeted and wrestled with the angels of his Duino Elegies in the solitude of a castle surrounded by white cliffs tall trees and the sea. I greeted most of mine in the solitude of a house that still vibrated with the throbs of a singular life that had helped shape many lives and with the ache of attempts to render useful service to that life. The River of Winged Dreams was therefore constructed as a link between dimensions of past and future emotions and intellect and matter and spirit. ~ Aberjhani,
1343:The more we speak of solitude, the clearer it becomes that at the bottom it is not something one can choose to take or leave. We are lonely. One can deceive oneself about it and act as if it were not so. That is all. But it is so much better to see that we are so, indeed even to presuppose it. It will make us dizzy, of course; because all the focal points on which our eyes were used to resting are taken away from us, there is nothing near us anymore, and everything distant is infinitely distant. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1344:For it is not only lethargy alone which causes human relationships to repeat themselves in the same old way with such unspeakable monotony in instance after instance; it is the fearful shying away from any kind of new, unforeseeable experience which we think we may not be equal to. But only someone who is ready for anything and rules nothing out, not even the most enigmatic things, will experience the relationship with another as a living thing and will himself live his own existence to the full. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1345:So you must not be frightened if a sadness rises up before you larger than any you have ever seen; if a restiveness, like light and cloudshadows, passes over your hands and over all you do. You must think that something is happening with you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand; it will not let you fall. Why do you want to shut out of your life any uneasiness, any miseries, or any depressions? For after all, you do not know what work these conditions are doing inside you. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1346:His vision, from the constantly passing bars, has grown so weary that it cannot hold anything else. It seems to him there are a thousand bars, and behind the bars, no world. As he paces in cramped circles, over and over, the movement of his powerful soft strides is like a ritual dance around a center in which a mighty will stands paralyzed. Only at times, the curtain of the pupils lifts, quietly. An image enters in, rushes down through the tense, arrested muscles, plunges into the heart and is gone. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1347:To go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows; at its source you will find the answer to the question whether you must create. Accept that answer, just as it is given to you, without trying to interpret it. Then take the destiny upon yourself, and bear it, its burden and its greatness, without ever asking what reward might come from outside. For the creator must be a world for himself and must find everything in himself and in Nature, to whom his whole life is devoted. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1348:If we only arrange our life in accordance with the principle which tells us that we must always trust in the difficult, then what now appears to us as the most alien will become our most intimate and trusted experience. How could we forget those ancient myths that stand at the beginning of all races, the myths about dragons that at the last moment are transformed into princesses? Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1349:Znaš, često sam ti govorio o vevericama koje sam hranio u Italiji kad sam bio dete i za koje sam kupio veoma dugačke uzice da se njihova sloboda ne bi završavala ni na najvišim vrhovima krošnji. Zaista je bilo vrlo rđavo silom ih zadržavati u njihovom lakom životu (naročito kada su odrasle i ja im više nisam bio potreban), ali to je donekle bilo i u njihovom planu da nastave da računaju na mene, jer su me često pratile, sve do trenutka kad sam ja sticao utisak da one žele da im vežem uzicu kao povodac ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1350:Extinguish Thou my eyes:I still can see Thee,
deprive my ears of sound:I still can hear Thee,
and without feet I still can come to Thee,
and without voice I still can call to Thee.

Sever my arms from me, I still will hold Thee
with all my heart as with a single hand,
arrest my heart, my brain will keep on beating,
and Should Thy fire at last my brain consume,
the flowing of my blood will carry Thee.
Translated by Albert Ernest Flemming

~ Rainer Maria Rilke, Extinguish Thou My Eyes
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1351:It is true that these mysteries are dreadful, and people have always drawn away from them. But where can we find anything sweet and glorious that would never wear this mask, the mask of the dreadful? Whoever does not, sometimes or other, give his full consent, his full and joyous consent to the dreadfulness of life, can never take possession of the unutterable abundance and power of our existence; can only walk on its edge, and one day, when the judgment is given, will have been neither alive nor dead. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1352:You see, I want a lot.
Maybe I want it all:
the darkness of each endless fall,
the shimmering light of each ascent.
So many are alive who don't seem to care.
Casual, easy, they move in the world
as though untouched.
But you take pleasure in the faces
of those who know they thirst.
You cherish those
who grip you for survival.
You are not dead yet, it's not too late
to open your depths by plunging into them
and drink in the life
that reveals itself quietly there. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1353:This above all-ask yourself in the stillest hour of your night: must I write? Delve into yourself for a deep answer. And if this should be affirmative, if you may meet this earnest question with a strong and simple "I must," then build your life according to this necessity; your life even into its most indifferent and slightest hour must be a sign of this urge and a testimony to it. Then draw near to Nature. Then try, like some first human being, to say what you see and experience and love and lose. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1354:Wie einer, der auf fremden Meeren fuhr,
so bin ich bei den ewig Einheimischen;
die vollen Tage stehn auf ihren Tischen,
mir aber ist die Ferne voll Figur.

In mein Gesicht reicht eine Welt herein,
die vielleicht unbewohnt ist wie ein Mond,
sie aber lassen kein Gefühl allein,
und alle ihre Worte sind bewohnt.

Die Dinge, die ich weither mit mir nahm,
sehn selten aus, gehalten an das Ihre -:
in ihrer großen Heimat sind sie Tiere,
hier halten sie den Atem an vor Scham. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1355:Man muß nie verzweifeln, wenn einem etwas verloren geht, ein Mensch oder eine Freude oder ein Glück; es kommt alles noch herrlicher wieder. Was abfallen muß, fällt ab; was zu uns gehört, bleibt bei uns, denn es geht alles nach Gesetzen vor sich, die größer als unsere Einsicht sind und mit denen wir nur scheinbar im Widerspruch stehen. Man muß in sich selber leben und an das ganze Leben denken, an alle seine Millionen Möglichkeiten, Weiten und Zukünfte, dem gegenüber es nichts Vergangenes und Verlorenes gibt. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1356:You have had many sadnesses, large ones, which passed. And you say that even this passing was difficult and upsetting for you. But please, ask yourself whether these large sadnesses haven’t rather gone right through you. Perhaps many things inside you have been transformed; perhaps somewhere, deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while you were sad. 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,
1357:That is at bottom the only courage that is demanded of us: to have courage for the most strange, the most singular and the most inexplicable that we may encounter. That mankind has in this sense been cowardly has done life endless harm; the experiences that are called "visions," the whole so-called "spirit-world," death, all those things that are so closely akin to us, have by daily parrying been so crowded out of life that the senses with which we could have grasped them are atrophied. To say nothing of God. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1358:And to speak of solitude again, it becomes clearer and clearer that fundamentally this is nothing that one can choose or refrain from. We are solitary. We can delude ourselves about this and act as if it were not true. That is all. But how much better it is to recognize that we are alone; yes, even to begin from this realization. It will, of course, make us dizzy; for all points that our eyes used to rest on are taken away from us, there is no longer anything near us, and everything far away is infinitely far. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1359:The sky puts on the darkening blue coat held for it by a row of ancient trees; you watch: and the lands grow distant in your sight, one journeying to heaven, one that falls; and leave you, not at home in either one, not quite so still and dark as the darkened houses, not calling to eternity with the passion of what becomes a star each night, and rises; and leave you (inexpressibly to unravel) your life, with its immensity and fear, so that, now bounded, now immeasurable it is alternately stone in you and star. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1360:Whoever you are: in the evening step out
of your room, where you know everything;
yours is the last house before the far-off:
whoever you are.
With your eyes, which in their weariness
barely free themselves from the worn-out threshold,
you lift very slowly one black tree
and place it against the sky: slender, alone.
And you have made the world. And it is huge
and like a word which grows ripe in silence.
And as your will seizes on its meaning,
tenderly your eyes let it go... ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1361:Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his reflective processes, and incomprehensibly to himself, all his progress should enter so swiftly into the work that he is unable to recognize them in the moment of transition. Alas, the artist who waits in ambush there, watching, detaining them, will find them transformed like the beautiful gold in the fairy tale which cannot remain gold because some small detail was not taken care of. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1362:If you hold to Nature, to the simplicity that is in her, to the small detail that scarcely one man sees, which can so unexpectedly grow into something great and boundless; if you have this love for insignificant things and seek, simply as one who serves, to win the confidence of what seems to be poor: then everything will become easier for you, more coherent and somehow more conciliatory, not perhaps in the understanding, which lags wondering behind, but in your innermost consciousness, wakefulness and knowing. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1363:The sky puts on the darkening blue coat held for it by a row of ancient trees; you watch: and the lands grow distant in your sight, one journeying to heaven, one that falls; and leave you, not at home in either one, not quite so still and dark as the darkened houses, not calling to eternity with the passion of what becomes a star each night, and rises; and leave you (inexpressibly to unravel) your life, with its immensity and fear, so that, now bounded, now immeasurable, it is alternately stone in you and star. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1364:A complete sharing between two people is an impossibility and whenever it seems, nevertheless, to exist, it is a narrowing, a mutual agreement which robs either one member or both of his fullest freedom and development. But, once the realization is accepted that, even between the closest human beings, infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole and against a wide sky! ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1365:KLAGE O wie ist alles fern und lange vergangen. Ich glaube, der Stern, von welchem ich Glanz empfange, ist seit Jahrtausenden tot. Ich glaube, im Boot, das vorüberfuhr, hörte ich etwas Banges sagen. Im Hause hat eine Uhr geschlagen … In welchem Haus? … Ich möchte aus meinem Herzen hinaus unter den großen Himmel treten. Ich möchte beten. Und einer von allen Sternen müßte wirklich noch sein. Ich glaube, ich wüßte, welcher allein gedauert hat,— welcher wie eine weiße Stadt am Ende des Strahls in den Himmeln steht … ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1366:Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children’s strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms even if it doesn’t comprehend. Don’t ask for advice from them and don’t expect any understanding; but believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is strength and blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1367:what transported me into raptures were the sweeping cloaks, the wraps, the shawls, the veils, all those yielding, magnificent, unused materials that were soft and caressing, or so sheer that I could hardly keep hold of them, or so light that they flew by me like a wind, or simply heavy with all their own weight. It was in them I saw, for the first time, truly free and infinitely variable possibilities: to be a slave girl and sold off, or to be Joan of Arc, or an old king, sorcerer; all these I now held in my hand ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1368:You are so young, so before all beginning, and I want to beg you, as much as I can, to be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves—like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given to you because you would not be able to live them. The point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1369:Entre el día y el sueño estoy en casa
donde duermen los niños, tibios de correrías
y los viejos se sientan por la tarde,
y arden hogares y su espacio alumbran.
Entre el día y el sueño estoy en casa
donde suenan campanas de oración
y muchachas, cohibidas por ecos que se extinguen,
se apoyan fatigadas en el brocal del pozo.
Y hay un tilo, que es mi árbol predilecto:
y todos los veranos que en él callan
se vuelven a mover en las mil ramas
y entre el día y el sueño vuelven a despertar. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1370:I am so afraid of people's words.They describe so distinctly everything:
And this they call dog and that they call house,
here the start and there the end.
I worry about their mockery with words,
they know everything, what will be, what was;
no mountain is still miraculous;
and their house and yard lead right up to God.
I want to warn and object: Let the things be!
I enjoy listening to the sound they are making.
But you always touch: and they hush and stand still.
That's how you kill. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1371:My whole life is mine, but whoever says so
will deprive me, for it is infinite.
The ripple of water, the shade of the sky
are mine; it is still the same, my life.

No desire opens me: I am full,
I never close myself with refusal-
in the rhythm of my daily soul
I do not desire-I am moved;

by being moved I exert my empire,
making the dreams of night real:
into my body at the bottom of the water
I attract the beyonds of mirrors
Translated by A. Poulin

~ Rainer Maria Rilke, Water Lily
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1372:Yes, the Springs needed you. Many a star was waiting
for your eyes only. A wave swelled toward you
out of the past, or as you walked by the open window
a violin inside surrendered itself
to pure passion. All that was your charge.
But were you strong enough? Weren't you always distracted
by expectation, as though each such moment
presaged a beloved's coming? (But where would you keep her,
with all those big strange thoughts in you
going and coming and sometimes staying all night?) ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1373:You see, I want a lot. Perhaps I want everything the darkness that comes with every infinite fall and the shivering blaze of every step up. So many live on and want nothing And are raised to the rank of prince By the slippery ease of their light judgments But what you love to see are faces that do work and feel thirst. You love most of all those who need you as they need a crowbar or a hoe. You have not grown old, and it is not too late To dive into your increasing depths where life calmly gives out its own secret. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1374:Cette humanité qu’a mûrie la femme dans la douleur et dans l’humiliation verra le jour quand la femme aura fait tomber les chaînes de sa condition sociale. Et les hommes qui ne sentent pas venir ce jour seront surpris et vaincus. Un jour […], la jeune fille sera; la femme sera. Et ces mots « jeune fille », « femme » ne signifient plus seulement le contraire du mâle, mais quelque chose de propre, valant en soi-même; non point un simple complément, mais une forme complète de la vie: la femme dans sa véritable humanité. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1375:Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart,” Rainer Maria Rilke writes in his fourth letter to a young poet. “Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day. ~ Sue Klebold,
1376:In this there is no measuring with time, a year doesn’t matter, and ten years are nothing. 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. But it comes only to those who are patient, who are there as if eternity lay before them, so unconcernedly silent and vast. I learn it every day of my life, learn it with pain I am grateful for: patience is everything! ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1377:Look how the same possibilities
unfold in their opposite demeanors,
as though one saw different ages
passing through two identical rooms.

Each thinks that she props up the other,
while resting wearily on her support;
and they can't make use of one another,
for they cause blood to rest on blood,

when as in the former times they softly touch
and try, along the tree-lined walks,
to feel themselves conducted and to lead;
ah, the ways they go are not the same.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke, The Sisters
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1378:I would like to beg of you, dear friend, as well as I can, to have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1379:And you wait. You wait for the one thing
that will change your life,
make it more than it is—
something wonderful, exceptional,
stones awakening, depths opening to you.

In the dusky bookstalls
old books glimmer gold and brown.
You think of lands you journeyed through,
of paintings and a dress once worn
by a woman you never found again.

And suddenly you know: that was enough.
You rise and there appears before you
in all its longings and hesitations
the shape of what you lived. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1380:Entrance"

Whoever you are: in the evening step out
of your room, where you know everything;
yours is the last house before the far-off:
whoever you are.
With your eyes, which in their weariness
barely free themselves from the worn-out threshold,
you lift very slowly one black tree
and place it against the sky: slender, alone.
And you have made the world. And it is huge
and like a word which grows ripe in silence.
And as your will seizes on its meaning,
tenderly your eyes let it go … ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1381:The claims which the difficult work of love lays upon our development are more than life-sized, and as beginners we are not equal to them. But if we continue to hold out and take this love upon ourselves as a burden and apprenticeship, instead of losing ourselves in all the light and frivolous play behind which mankind have concealed themselves from the most serious gravity of their existence,-then perhaps some small progress and some alleviation will become perceptible to those who come long after us; that would be much. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1382:Whom will you cry to, heart? More and more lonely,
your path struggles on through incomprehensible
mankind. All the more futile perhaps
for keeping to its direction,
keeping on toward the future,
toward what has been lost.

Once. You lamented? What was it? A fallen berry
of jubilation, unripe.
But now the whole tree of my jubilation
is breaking, in the storm it is breaking, my slow
tree of joy.
Loveliest in my invisible
landscape, you that made me more known
to the invisible angels. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1383:God speaks to each of us as he makes us,
then walks with us silently out of the night.

These are the words we dimly hear:

You, sent out beyond your recall,
go to the limits of your longing.
Embody me.

Flare up like a flame
and make big shadows I can move in.

Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror.
Just keep going. No feeling is final.
Don't let yourself lose me.

Nearby is the country they call life.
You will know it by its seriousness.

Give me your hand. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1384:they (who by their very nature are impatient) fling themselves at each other when love takes hold of them, they scatter themselves, just as they are, in all their messiness, disorder, bewilderment. And what can happen then? What can life do with this heap of half-broken things that they call their communion and that they would like to call their happiness, if that were possible, and their future? And so each of them loses himself for the sake of the other person, and loses the other, and many others who still wanted to come. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1385:You are so young, you have not even begun, and I would like to beg you, dear Sir, as well as I can, to have patience with everything that is unsolved in your heart and to try to cherish the questions themselves, like closed rooms and like books written in a very strange tongue. Do not search now for the answers which cannot be given you because you could not live them. It is a matter of living everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, one distant day live right into the answer. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1386:Frequently, when we are frozen by an event or if an event sheds its leaves and petals in front of our eyes in some other violent way, we dig up the soil around it in horror and shrink back from the ugliness of its roots where that which looks to us like transience lives. We have such a limited capacity to be just toward all phenomena and we are so quick to call ugly, as if turning spitefully and vengefully against ourselves, anything that simply does not correspond to the notion of beauty to which we subscribe at that moment. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1387:DER PANTHER Im Jardin des Plantes, Paris Sein Blick ist vom Vorübergehn der Stäbe so müd geworden, daß er nichts mehr hält. Ihm ist, als ob es tausend Stäbe gäbe und hinter tausend Stäben keine Welt. Der weiche Gang geschmeidig starker Schritte, der sich im allerkleinsten Kreise dreht, ist wie ein Tanz von Kraft um eine Mitte, in der betäubt ein großer Wille steht. Nur manchmal schiebt der Vorhang der Pupille sich lautlos auf—. Dann geht ein Bild hinein, geht durch der Glieder angespannte Stille— und hört im Herzen auf zu sein. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1388:Quiet friend who has come so far, feel how your breathing makes more space around you. Let this darkness be a bell tower and you the bell. As you ring, what batters you becomes your strength. Move back and forth into the change. What is it like, such intensity of pain? If the drink is bitter, turn yourself to wine. In this uncontainable night, be the mystery at the crossroads of your senses, the meaning discovered there. And if the world has ceased to hear you, say to the silent earth: I flow. To the rushing water, speak: I am. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1389:Do you remember still the falling stars
that like swift horses through the heavens raced
and suddenly leaped across the hurdles
of our wishesdo you recall? And we
did make so many! For there were countless numbers
of stars: each time we looked above we were
astounded by the swiftness of their daring play,
while in our hearts we felt safe and secure
watching these brilliant bodies disintegrate,
knowing somehow we had survived their fall.
Translated by Albert Ernest Flemming

~ Rainer Maria Rilke, Falling Stars
,
1390:Feiern Sie, lieber Herr Kappus, Weihnachten in diesem frommen Gefühl, daß Er vielleicht gerade diese Lebensangst von Ihnen braucht, um zu beginnen; gerade diese Tage Ihres Überganges sind vielleicht die Zeit, da alles in Ihnen an Ihm arbeitet, wie Sie schon einmal, als Kind, atemlos an Ihm gearbeitet haben. Seien Sie geduldig und ohne Unwillen und denken Sie, daß das wenigste, was wir tun können, ist, Ihm das Werden nicht schwerer zu machen, als die Erde es dem Frühling macht, wenn er kommen will. Und seien Sie froh und getrost. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1391:Wie soll ich meine Seele halten, daß
sie nicht an deine rührt? Wie soll ich sie
hinheben über dich zu andern Dingen?
Ach gerne möchte ich sie bei irgendetwas
Verlorenem im Dunkel unterbringen
an einer fremden stillen Stelle, die
nicht weiterschwingt, wenn diene Tiefen schwingen.
Doch alles, was uns anrührt, dich und mich,
nimmt uns zusammen wie ein Bogenstrich,
die aus zwei Saiten eine Stimme zieht.
Auf welches Instrument sind wir gespannt?
Und welcher Geiger hat uns in der Hand?
O süßes Lied. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1392:What birds plunge through is not the intimate space,
in which you see all Forms intensified.
(In the Open, denied, you would lose yourself,
would disappear into that vastness.)

Space reaches from us and translates Things:
to become the very essence of a tree,
throw inner space around it, from that space
that lives in you. Encircle it with restraint.
It has no limits. For the first time, shaped
in your renouncing, it becomes truly free.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke, What Birds Plunge Through Is Not The Intimate Space
,
1393:Is it possible that there are people who say "God" and suppose they mean something shared by all? — Only consider two schoolboys: one of them buys a knife, and the other buys an identical one on the same day. And a week later, they show each other the two knives, and they turn out to be only remotely similar, so differently have they been shaped by different hands. ... Is it possible to believe we could have a god without making use of him? ~ Rainer Maria Rilke, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (1910), as translated by Michael Hulse (2009), p. 16,
1394:Only mouths are we. Who sings the distant heart
which safely exists in the center of all things?
His giant heartbeat is diverted in us
into little pulses. And his giant grief
is, like his giant jubilation, far too
great for us. And so we tear ourselves away
from him time after time, remaining only
mouths. But unexpectedly and secretly
the giant heartbeat enters our being,
so that we scream ,
and are transformed in being and in countenance.
Translated by Albert Ernest Flemming

~ Rainer Maria Rilke, Heartbeat
,
1395:Selam o ruha, bizi birleştirebilen!
Gerçek hayatımız simgededir ancak.
Yürür saatler küçük adımlar atarak
asıl bizim olan güne eşlik ederken.

Biz, nerde olduğumuzu bilmeyenler,
gerçek bağlantılar kurarız kendimize.
Antenleri aranır durur antenler,
boş uzaklığın getirdiyse...

saf gerginlik. Ey güçlerin musikisi!
Bütün tedirginliklere karşı sizi
sıradan işler değil mi koruyanlar ?

Ne denli çalışıp didinse de köylü,
erişemez tohumun yaza dönüştüğü
derinliklere. Topraktandır armağanlar. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1396:So, dear Mr Kappus, you shouldn't be dismayed if a sadness rises up in front of you, greater than any you have ever seen before; or if a disquiet plays over your hands and over all your doings like light and cloud-shadow. You must think that something is happening with you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand; it will not let you fall. Why should you want to exclude from your life all unsettling, all pain, all depression of spirit, when you don't know what work it is these states are performing within you? ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1397:I am like a flag in the center of open space.
I sense ahead the wind which is coming, and must live
it through.
while the things of the world still do not move:
the doors still close softly, and the chimneys are full
of silence,
the windows do not rattle yet, and the dust still lies down.

I already know the storm, and I am troubled as the sea.
I leap out, and fall back,
and throw myself out, and am absolutely alone
in the great storm.
Translated by Robert Bly

~ Rainer Maria Rilke, Sense Of Something Coming
,
1398:(…) und ich möchte Sie, so gut ich es kann bitten, Geduld zu haben gegen alles Ungelöste in Ihrem Herzen und zu versuchen, die Fragen selbst lieb zu haben, wie verschlossene Stuben und wie Bücher, die in einer fremden Sprache geschrieben sind. Forschen Sie jetzt nicht nach den Antworten, die Ihnen nicht gegeben werden können, weil Sie sie jetzt nicht leben könnten. Und es handelt sich darum, alles zu leben. Leben Sie jetzt die Fragen. Vielleicht leben Sie dann allmählich, ohne es zu merken, eines fernen Tages in die Antworten hinein. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1399:IN APRIL Again the woods are odorous, the lark Lifts on upsoaring wings the heaven gray That hung above the tree-tops, veiled and dark, Where branches bare disclosed the empty day. After long rainy afternoons an hour Comes with its shafts of golden light and flings Them at the windows in a radiant shower, And rain drops beat the panes like timorous wings. Then all is still. The stones are crooned to sleep By the soft sound of rain that slowly dies; And cradled in the branches, hidden deep In each bright bud, a slumbering silence lies. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1400:You are so young, so before all beginning, and I want to beg you, as much as I can, dear sir, to be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1401:And in fact the artist's experience lies so unbelievably close to the sexual, to its pain and its pleasure, that the two phenomena are really just different forms of one and the same longing and bliss. And if instead of "heat" one could say "sex";- sex in the great, pure sense of the word, free of any sin attached to it by the Church, - then his art would be very great and infinitely important. His poetic power is great and as strong as a primal instinct; it has its own relentless rhythms in itself and explodes from him like a volcano. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1402:Bodily delight is a sensory experience, not any different from pure looking or the feeling with which a beautiful fruit fills the tongue; it is a great, an infinite learning that is given to us, a knowledge of the world, the fullness and the splendor of all knowledge. And it is not our acceptance of it that is bad; what is bad is that most people misuse this learning and squander it and apply it as a stimulant on the tired places of their lives and as a distraction rather than as a way of gathering themselves for their highest moments. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1403:that is where young people so often and so grievously go wrong: that they (whose nature it is to have no patience) throw themselves at each other when love comes over them, scatter themselves abroad, just as they are in all their untidiness, disorder and confusion . . .: But what is to be done then? How is life to act upon this heap of half crushed matter which they call their communion and which they would dearly like to style their happiness, if that were possible, and their future? So each one loses himself for the other’s sake, and ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1404:And your doubt may become a good quality if you train it. It must become knowing, it must become critical. Ask it, whenever it wants to spoil something for you, why something is ugly, demand proofs from it, test it, and you will find it perplexed and embarrassed perhaps, or perhaps rebellious. But don’t give in, insist on arguments and act this way, watchful and consistent, every single time, and the day will arrive when from a destroyer it will become one of your best workers—perhaps the cleverest of all that are building at your life. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1405:One must never despair upon losing something, whether it is an individual or an experience of joy or happiness; everything returns even more magnificently. What has to decline, declines; what belongs to us, stays with us, for everything works according to laws that are greater than our capacity for understanding and that only seem to contradict us. You have to live within yourself and think of all of life, all of its millions of possibilities, openings, and futures in relation to which there exists nothing that is past or has been lost. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1406:You are so young, so much before all beginning, and I want to ask you, as best I can, dear sir, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to have love for the questions themselves, like locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Do not seek out the answers now, which cannot be given to you because you cannot live them. And what matters is to live everything. Live the questions for now. Perhaps then, without noticing it, you will gradually come, on some far-off day, to live your way into the answer. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1407:So it's back once more, back up the slope. Why do they always ruin my rope with their cuts? I felt so ready the other day, Had a real foretaste of eternity In my guts. Spoonfeeding me yet another sip from life's cup. I don't want it, won't take any more of it. Let me throw up. Life is medium rare and good, I see, And the world full of soup and bread, But it won't pass into the blood for me, Just goes to my head. It makes me ill, though others it feeds; Do see that I must deny it! For a thousand years from now at least I'm keeping a diet. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1408:und ich möchte Sie, so gut ich es kann, bitten, lieber Herr, Geduld zu haben gegen alles Ungelöste in Ihrem Herzen und zu versuchen, die Fragen selbst liebzuhaben wie verschlossene Stuben und wie Bücher, die in einer sehr fremden Sprache geschrieben sind. Forschen Sie jetzt nicht nach den Antworten, die Ihnen nicht gegeben werden können, weil Sie sie nicht leben könnten. Und es handelt sich darum, alles zu leben. Leben Sie jetzt die Fragen. Vielleicht leben Sie dann allmählich, ohne es zu merken, eines fernen Tages in die Antwort hinein. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1409:Works of art are of an infinite solitude, and no means of approach is so useless as criticism. Only love can touch and hold them and be fair to them. — Always trust yourself and your own feeling, as opposed to argumentations, discussions, or introductions of that sort; if it turns out that you are wrong, then the natural growth of your inner life will eventually guide you to other insights. Allow your judgments their own silent, undisturbed development, which, like all progress, must come from deep within and cannot be forced or hastened ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1410:You have to live life to the limit, not according to each day but according to its depth. One does not have to do what comes next if one feels a greater affinity with that which happens later, at a remove, even in a remote distance. One may dream while others are saviors if these dreams are more real to oneself than reality and more necessary than bread. In a word: one ought to turn the most extreme possibility inside oneself into the measure for one’s life, for our life is vast and can accommodate as much future as we are able to carry. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1411:For what I could say to you about your inclination to doubt or about your inability to bring your inner and outer life into harmony, or about everything else that causes you concern -- it is always that which I have already said: it is always my wish that you might find enough patience within yourself to endure, and enough innocence to have faith. It is my wish that you might gain more and more trust in whatever is difficult for you, in your aloneness, among other thing. Allow life to happen to you. Believe me, life is right in all cases. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1412:Outside much has changed. I don't know how. But inside and before you, O my God, inside before you, spectator, are we not without action? We discover, indeed, that we do not know our part, we look for a mirror, we want to rub off the make-up and remove the counterfeit and be real. But somewhere a bit of mummery still sticks to us that we forget. A trace of exaggeration remains in our eyebrows, we do not notice that the corners of our lips are twisted. And thus we go about, a laughing-stock, a mere half-thing: neither existing, not actors. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1413:what we call fate does not come into us from the outside, but emerges from us. It is only because so many people have not absorbed and transformed their fates while they were living in them that they have not realized what was emerging from them; it was so alien to them that they have not realized what was emerging from them; it was so alien to them that, in their confusion and fear, they thought it must have entered them at the very moment they became aware of it, for they swore they had never before found anything like that inside them. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1414:His vision, from the constantly passing bars,
has grown so weary that it cannot hold
anything else. It seems to him there are
a thousand bars, and behind the bars, no world.

As he paces in cramped circles, over and over,
the movement of his powerful soft strides
is like a ritual dance around a center
in which a mighty will stands paralyzed.

Only at times, the curtain of the pupils
lifts, quietly. An image enters in,
rushes down through the tense, arrested muscles,
plunges into the heart and is gone. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1415:O smile, going where? O upturned look:
new, warm, receding surge of the heart--;
alas, we are that surge. Does then the
cosmic space
we dissolve in taste of us? Do the
angels
reclaim only what is theirs, their own
outstreamed existence,
or sometimes, by accident, does a bit
of us
get mixed in? Are we blended in their
features
like the slight vagueness that
complicates the looks
of pregnant women? Unnoticed by them
in their
whirling back into themselves? (How
could they notice?) ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1416:Allow your judgments their own silent, undisturbed development, which, like all progress, must come from deep within and cannot be forced or hastened. Everything is gestation and then birthing. To let each impression and each embryo of a feeling come to completion, entirely in itself, in the dark, in the unsayable, the unconscious, beyond the reach of one’s own understanding, and with deep humility and patience to wait for the hour when a new clarity is born: this alone is what it means to live as an artist: in understanding as in creating. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1417:Attempt to raise the sunken sensations of this distant past; your self will become the stronger for it, your loneliness will open up and become a twilit dwelling in which the noise other people make is only heard far off. And if from this turn inwards, from this submersion in your own world, there come verses, then it will not occur to you to ask anyone whether they are good verses. Nor will you attempt to interest magazines in these bits of work: for in them you will see your beloved natural possessions, a piece, and a voice, of your life. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1418:That is why the sadness passes: the new presence inside us, the presence that has been added, has entered our heart, has gone into its innermost chamber and is no longer even there, is already in our bloodstream. And we don't know what it was. We could easily be made to believe that nothing happened, and yet we have changed, as a house that a guest has entered changes. We can't say who has come, perhaps we will never know, but many signs indicate that the future enters us in this way in order to be transformed in us, long before it happens. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1419:Love Song

How can I keep my soul in me, so that
it doesn’t touch your soul? How can I raise
it high enough, past you, to other things?
I would like to shelter it, among remote
lost objects, in some dark and silent place
that doesn’t resonate when your depths resound.
Yet everything that touches us, me and you,
takes us together like a violin’s bow,
which draws one voice out of two separate strings.
Upon what instrument are we two spanned?
And what musician holds us in his hand?
Oh sweetest song. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1420:Center of all centers, core of cores,
almond self-enclosed, and growing sweet
all this universe, to the furthest stars
all beyond them, is your flesh, your fruit.

Now you feel how nothing clings to you;
your vast shell reaches into endless space,
and there the rich, thick fluids rise and flow.
Illuminated in your infinite peace,

a billion stars go spinning through the night,
blazing high above your head.
But in you is the presence that
will be, when all the stars are dead.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke, Buddha in Glory
,
1421:What fields are as fragrant as your hands?
You feel how external fragrance stands
upon your stronger resistance.
Stars stand in images above.
Give me your mouth to soften, love;
ah, your hair is all in idleness.

See, I want to surround you with yourself
and the faded expectation lift
from the edges of your eyebrows;
I want, as with inner eyelids sheer,
to close for you all places which appear
by my tender caresses now.
Translated by John J.L. Mood

~ Rainer Maria Rilke, What Fields Are As Fragrant As Your Hands?
,
1422:Works of art are of an infinite loneliness and nothing can reach them so little as criticism. Only love can grasp them and keep hold of them and be just to them. Always trust yourself and your own feelings as opposed to any such analysis, review or introduction; if you should be wrong, then the natural growth of your inner life will lead you slowly and in time to new realisations. Allow your judgments their own quiet, undisturbed development, which like all progress must come from deep within you and cannot be forced or hastened by anything. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1423:Perhaps many things inside you have been transformed; perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while you were sad. 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; like diseases that are treated superficially and foolishly, they just withdraw and after a short interval break out again all the more terribly; and gather inside us and are life, are life that is unlived, rejected, lost, life that we can die of. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1424:He renders himself so flat that many people pass by every day without ever seeing him. He does still have something of a voice left, true, and uses it to draw attention; but it is no different from a noise in a lamp or a stove, or the odd irregular dripping of water in a cave. And the world is so ordered that there are people who are forever passing by, their whole lives long, in that interval when he moves on, making less of a sound than anything else that moves, like the hand of a clock, like the shadow of the hand of a clock, like time itself. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1425:My loving friend, you see, my life was never given a foundation, no one was able to imagine what it would want to become. In Venice there stands the so-called Ca del Duca, a princely foundation, on which later the most wretched tenement came to be built. With me it's the opposite: the beautiful arched elevations of my spirit rest on the most tentative beginning; a wooden scaffolding, a few boards....Is that why I feel inhibited in raising the nave, the tower to which the weight of the great bells is to be hoisted (by angels, who else could do it)? ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1426:Telling you all would take too long.
Besides, we read in the Bible
how the good is harmful
and how misfortune is good.

Let's invite something new
by unifying our silences;
if, then and there, we advance,
we'll know it soon enough.

And yet towards evening,
when his memory is persistent,
one belated curiousity
stops him before the mirror.

We don't know if he is frightened.
But he stays, he is engrossed,
and, facing his reflection,
transports himself somewhere else.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke, Telling You All
,
1427:It's strange, of course, no longer to inhabit the earth,
no longer to practice barely learned customs,
not to give roses and other auspicious things
the meaning of a human future;
to be no longer what one was in infinitely
anxious hands, and even to put aside
one's own name like a broken toy.
Strange, to no longer keep wishing our wishes. Strange,
to see elements, once related, flutter
loosely in space. And being dead is toilsome,
and full of the retrieving needed if little by little
we're to feel a bit of eternity. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1428:Loving isn't merging, surrendering, uniting with the other. Rather, it's a kind of solitude; of profound aloneness. It induces you to mature and become whole for the sake of your beloved ... to truly love another, you must first wholly love yourself. Love therefore exacts the most demanding claim of all; it both chooses you and pursues you, and reaches out, as if over vast distances, to call and draw you into your now and future self."
-- John VanDyke Wilmerding, ideas put forth inspired by ('after') Rainer Maria Rilke's 'Letters to a Young Poet ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1429:Lord: it is time. The summer was immense.
Lay your shadow on the sundials
and let loose the wind in the fields.

Bid the last fruits to be full;
give them another two more southerly days,
press them to ripeness, and chase
the last sweetness into the heavy wine.

Whoever has no house now will not build one
anymore.
Whoever is alone now will remain so for a long
time,
will stay up, read, write long letters,
and wander the avenues, up and down,
restlessly, while the leaves are blowing.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke, Autumn Day
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1430:Ngay ở trong tù chăng nữa, tường cao không để lọt một tiếng động từ thế giới bên ngoài, nhưng tuổi thơ trong ta, nguồn của cải vuơng giả và huy hoàng đó, kho báu của hồi ức, còn đó. Ông hãy tập trung vào đấy. Hãy tìm cách nhấc lên những sự kiện đã chìm của cái dĩ vãng xa xăm ấy; bản lĩnh của ông sẽ được củng cố, nỗi cô đơn sẽ tỏa rộng và trở thành một ngôi nhà mờ tỏ, cách xa tiếng ồn của người đời - và khi thơ bật lên từ cuộc hướng nội, từ chốn đắm mình trong cõi riêng của mình như vậy, ông sẽ không còn nghĩ đến việc hỏi ai rằng thơ ấy có được không. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1431:[on poor children]
Perhaps you intend, O my God, to relinquish everything and love them. Why else do I find it so hard not to follow them when they pass me? [...] Why do I imagine how I would hold them close, right up to my breath, with an inexistable caution, these dolls whom life has played with, flinging their arms open with every spring that comes, til their shoulder joints grow loose? They have never fallen from a hope so high, and so they are not broken; but they are battered and already in too poor a state for life to have much use for them. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1432:There comes a time when we have deposited in it all our firstlings, all beginning, all confidence, the seeds of all that which might perhaps some day come to be. And suddenly we realize: All that has sunk into a deep sea, and we don't even know just when. We never noticed it. As though some one were to collect all his money, and buy a feather with it and stick the feather in his hat: whish!--the first breeze will carry it away. Naturally he arrives home without his feather, and nothing remains for him but to look back and think when it would have flown. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1433:How I will cherish you then,
you grief-torn nights!
Had I only received you,
inconsolable sisters,
on more abject knees, only
buried myself with more
abandon
in your loosened hair. How we waste
our afflictions!
We study them, stare out beyond them
into bleak continuance,
hoping to glimpse some end. Whereas
they're really
our wintering foliage, our dark greens
of meaning, one
of the seasons of the clandestine
year -- ; not only
a season --: they're site, settlement,
shelter, soil, abode. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1434:Suddenly she steps, wrapped into the wind,
brightly into brightness, as if singled out,
while now the room as though cut to fit
behind her fills the door

darkly like the ground of cameo,
that lets a glimmer through at the edges;
and you think the evening wasn't there
before she stepped out, and on the railing

set forth just a little of herself,
just her hands, to be completely light:
as if passed on by the rows of houses
to the heavens, to be swayed by everything.
Translated by Edward Snow

~ Rainer Maria Rilke, Lady On A Balcony
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1435:There is probably no point in my going into your questions now; for what I could say about your tendency to doubt or about your inability to bring your outer and inner lives into harmony or about all the other thing that oppress you - : is just what I have already said: just the wish that you may find in yourself enough patience to endure and enough simplicity to have faith; that you may gain more and more confidence in what is difficult and in your solitude among other people. And as for the rest, let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1436:And if we only organize our life according to the principle which teaches us always to hold to what is difficult, then what now still appears most foreign will become our most intimate and most reliable experience. How can we forget those ancient myths found at the beginnings of all peoples? The myths about the dragons who at the last moment turn into princesses? Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything terrifying is deep down a helpless thing that needs our help. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1437:Outside, much has changed. I don't know how. But inside and before you, Lord, inside before you, Spectator: aren't we without action? We discover, indeed, that we don't know our part; we look for a mirror; we want to rub off the make-up and remove everything that is artificial, and become real. But somewhere a piece of our disguise still sticks to us, which we forgot. A trace exaggeration remains on our eyebrows; we don't notice that the corners of our mouth are twisted. And this is how we go around, a laughing-stock and half-truth: neither real beings nor actors. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1438:You see, I want a lot.
Perhaps I want everything
the darkness that comes with every infinite fall
and the shivering blaze of every step up.
So many live on and want nothing
And are raised to the rank of prince
By the slippery ease of their light judgments
But what you love to see are faces
that do work and feel thirst.
You love most of all those who need you
as they need a crowbar or a hoe.
You have not grown old, and it is not too late
To dive into your increasing depths
where life calmly gives out its own secret. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1439:His vision, from the constantly passing bars,
has grown so weary that it cannot hold
anything else. It seems to him there are
a thousand bars; and behind the bars, no world.

As he paces in cramped circles, over and over,
the movement of his powerful soft strides
is like a ritual dance around a center
in which a mighty will stands paralyzed.

Only at times, the curtain of the pupils
lifts, quietly. An image enters in,
rushes down through the tensed, arrested muscles,
plunges into the heart and is gone.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke, The Panther
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1440:You are so young, so much before all beginning, and I would like to beg you, dear Sir, as well as I can, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. 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 even noticing it, live your way into the answer. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1441:And yet life is transformation: all that is good is transformation and all that is bad as well. For this reason he is in the right who encounters everything as something that will not return. It does not matter whether he then forgets or remembers, as long as he had been fully present only for its duration and been the site, the atmosphere, the world for what happened, as long as it happened within him, in his center, whatever is good and what is bad—then he really has nothing else to fear because something else of renewed significance is always about to happen next. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1442:Strange violin, why do you follow me?
In how many foreign cities did you
speak of your lonely nights and those of mine.
Are you being played by hundreds? Or by one?

Do in all great cities men exist
who tormented and in deep despair
would have sought the river but for you?
And why does your playing always reach me?

Why is it that I am always neighbor
to those lost ones who are forced to sing
and to say: Life is infinitely heavier
than the heaviness of all things.
Translated by Albert Ernest Flemming

~ Rainer Maria Rilke, The Neighbor
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1443:Some day, if I should ever lose you,
will you be able then to go to sleep
without me softly whispering above you
like night air stirring in the linden tree?

Without my waking here and watching
and saying words as tender as eyelids
that come to rest weightlessly upon your breast,
upon your sleeping limbs, upon your lips?

Without my touching you and leaving you
alone with what is yours, like a summer garden
that is overflowing with masses
of Melissa and star-anise?
Translated by Albert Ernest Flemming

~ Rainer Maria Rilke, Slumber Song
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1444:The Solitary

As one who has sailed across an unknown sea,
among this rooted folk I am alone;
the full days on their tables are their own,
to me the distant is reality.

A new world reaches to my very eyes,
a place perhaps unpeopled as the moon;
their slightest feelings they must analyze,
and all their words have got the common tune.

The things I brought with me from far away,
compared with theirs, look strangely not the same:
in their great country they were living things,
but here they hold their breath, as if for shame. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1445:You couldn’t wait for that; you were there, and everything that is barely measurable ― an emotion that rises by half a degree, the angle of deflection, read off from up close, of a will burdened by an almost infinitesimal weight, the slight cloudiness in a drop of longing, and that barely perceptible color-change in an atom of confidence ― all this you had to determine and record. For it is in such reactions that life existed, our life, which has slipped into us, had drawn back inside us so deeply that it was hardly possible even to make conjectures about it any more. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1446:How shall I hold my soul that it may not
Be touching yours? How shall I lift it then
Above you to where other things are waiting?
Ah, gladly would I lodge it, all forgot,
With some lost thing the dark is isolating
On some remote and silent spot that, when
Your depths vibrate, is not itself vibrating.
You and me – all that lights upon us though,
Brings us together like a fiddle bow
Drawing one voice from two strings, it glides along.
Across what instrument have we been spanned?
And what violinist holds us in his hand?
O sweetest song. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1447:And your doubt can become a good quality if you train it. It must become knowing, it must become criticism. Ask it, whenever it wants to spoil something for you, why something is ugly, demand proofs from it, test it, and you will find it perhaps bewildered and embarrassed, perhaps also protesting. But don't give in, insist on arguments, and act in this way, attentive and persistent, every single time, and the day will come when, instead of being a destroyer, it will become one of your best workers-perhaps the most intelligent of all the ones that are building your life. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1448:I have often wondered whether especially those days when we are forced to remain idle are not precisely the days spend in the most profound activity. Whether our actions themselves, even if they do not take place until later, are nothing more than the last reverberations of a vast movement that occurs within us during idle days.

In any case, it is very important to be idle with confidence, with devotion, possibly even with joy. The days when even our hands do not stir are so exceptionally quiet that it is hardly possible to raise them without hearing a whole lot. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1449:This laboring through what is still undone,
as though, legs bound, we hobbled along the way,
is like the awkward walking of the swan.

And dying-to let go, no longer feel
the solid ground we stand on every day-
is like anxious letting himself fall

into waters, which receive him gently
and which, as though with reverence and joy,
draw back past him in streams on either side;
while, infinitely silent and aware,
in his full majesty and ever more
indifferent, he condescends to glide.
Translated by Stephen Mitchell
~ Rainer Maria Rilke, The Swan
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1450:You, God, who live next door - If at times, through the long night, I trouble you with my urgent knocking - this is why: I hear you breathe so seldom. I know you're all alone in that room. If you should be thirsty, there's no one to get you a glass of water. I wait listening, always. Just give me a sign! I'm right here... Sen komşu tanrı, Uzun geceler bazen, Kapına vura vura uyandırıyorsam seni Solumanı seyrek duyduğumdandır... Bilirim, yalnızsın odanda. Sana birşey gerekse kimse yok, Bir yudum su versin aradığında. Hep dinlerim, yeter ki bir ses edin, Öyle yakınım sana. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1451:It is perhaps no use now to reply to your actual words; for what I could say about your disposition to doubt or about your inability to bring your outer and inner life into harmony, or about anything else that oppresses you—: it is always what I have said before: always the wish that you might be able to find patience enough in yourself to endure, and single-heartedness enough to believe; that you might win increasing trust in what is difficult, and in your solitude among other people. And for the rest, let life happen to you. Believe me: life is right, at all events. And ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1452:He can remember that all beauty in animals and plants is a silent, enduring form of love and longing, and he can see the animal, as he sees the plant, patiently and willingly uniting and multiplying and growing, not from physical pleasure, not from physical pain, but bowing to necessities that are greater than pleasure and pain and mightier than will and opposition. O, that man might more humbly receive this mystery, of which the earth is full, down to its smallest things, and earnestly bear it, endure it, and feel how terribly weighty it is, rather than taking it lightly. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1453:O how all things are far removed and long have passed away. I do believe the star, whose light my face reflects, is dead and has been so for many thousand years. I had a vision of a passing boat and heard some voices saying disquieting things. I heard a clock strike in some distant house... but in which house?... I long to quiet my anxious heart and stand beneath the sky's immensity. I long to pray... And one of all the stars must still exist. I do believe that I would know which one alone endured, and which like a white city stands at the ray's end shining in the heavens. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1454: How can I keep my soul in me, so that
it doesn't touch your soul? How can I raise
it high enough, past you, to other things?
I would like to shelter it, among remote
lost objects, in some dark and silent place
that doesn't resonate when your depths resound.
Yet everything that touches us, me and you,
takes us together like a violin's bow,
which draws one voice out of two separate strings.
Upon what instrument are we two spanned?
And what musician holds us in his hand?
Oh sweetest song.
Translated by Stephen Mitchell

~ Rainer Maria Rilke, Love Song
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1455:But perhaps these are the very hours during which solitude grows; for its growing is painful as the growing of boys and sad as the beginning of spring. But that must not confuse you. What is necessary, after all, is only this: solitude, vast inner solitude. To walk inside yourself and meet no one for hours - that is what you must be able to attain. To be solitary as you were when you were a child, when the grownups walked around involved with matters that seemed large and important because they looked so busy and because you didn't understand a thing about what they were doing. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1456:They grope before them like blind people and find each the other as they would a door. Almost like children that dread the night, they press close into each other. And yet they are not afraid. There is nothing that might be against them: no yesterday, no morrow; for time is shattered. And they flower from its ruins.
He does not ask: 'Your husband?'
She does not ask: 'Your name?'
For indeed they have found each other, to be unto themselves a new generation.
They will give each other a hundred new names and take them all off again, gently, as one takes an earring off. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1457:Marveling he stands on the cathedral's
steep ascent, close to the rose window,
as though frightened at the apotheosis
which grew and all at once

set him down over these and these.
And straight he stands and glad of his endurance,
simply determined; as the husbandman
who began and who knew not how

from the garden of Eden finished-full
to find a way out into
the new earth. God was hard to persuade;

and threatened him, instead of acceding,
ever and again, that he would die.
Yet man persisted: she will bring forth.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke, Adam
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1458:Have (with the help of convention) found the solution of everything in ease and the easiest side of ease; but it is clear that we’ must hold to the difficult; everything living holds to it, everything in Nature grows and defends itself according to its own character and is an individual in its own right, strives to be so at any cost and against all opposition. We know little, but that we must hold to the difficult is a certainty that will not leave us; it is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; the fact that a thing is difficult must be one more reason for our doing it. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1459:We say release, and radiance, and roses,”

We say release, and radiance, and roses,
and echo upon everything that's known;
and yet, behind the world our names enclose is
the nameless: our true archetype and home.

The sun seems male, and earth is like a woman,
the field is humble, and the forest proud;
but over everything we say, inhuman,
moves the forever-undetermined god.

We grow up; but the world remains a child.
Star and flower, in silence, watch us go.
And sometimes we appear to be the final
exam they must succeed on. And they do. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1460:Music: breathing of statues. Perhaps:
silence of paintings. You language where all language
ends. You time
standing vertically on the motion of mortal hearts.

Feelings for whom? O you the transformation
of feelings into what?--: into audible landscape.
You stranger: music. You heart-space
grown out of us. The deepest space in us,
which, rising above us, forces its way out,--
holy departure:
when the innermost point in us stands
outside, as the most practiced distance, as the other
side of the air:
pure,
boundless,
no longer habitable. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1461:Permítale a sus juicios su propio desarrollo silente e imperturbable, el cual, como todo progreso, debe venir de lo más profundo y no puede ser forzado, ni apurado. Todo es gestación y luego nacimiento. Dejar que cada impresión y cada embrión de un sentimiento llegue a término. Enteramente por sí mismo, en la oscuridad, en lo inexpresable, lo inconsciente, más allá del alcance de nuestro propio entendimiento, y con profunda humildad y paciencia al esperar por el momento en el que una nueva claridad nazca: sólo esto es lo que significa vivir como un artista, al entender como al crear. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1462:Sonnets to Orpheus, Part One, XII

Bless the spirit that makes connections,
for truly we live in what we imagine.
Clocks move along side our real life
with steps that are ever the same.

Though we do not know our exact location,
we are held in place by what links us.
Across trackless distances
antennas sense each other.

Pure attention, the essence of the powers!
Distracted by each day's doing,
how can we hear the signals?

Even as the farmer labors
there where the seed turns into summer,
it is not his work. It is Earth who gives. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1463:The Panther

His gaze is from the passing of bars
so exhausted, that it doesn't hold a thing anymore.
For him, it's as if there were thousands of bars
and behind the thousands of bars no world.

The sure stride of lithe, powerful steps,
that around the smallest of circles turns,
is like a dance of pure energy about a center,
in which a great will stands numbed.

Only occasionally, without a sound, do the covers
of the eyes slide open—. An image rushes in,
goes through the tensed silence of the frame—
only to vanish, forever, in the heart. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1464:Along the sun-drenched roadside, from the great
hollow half-treetrunk, which for generations
has been a trough, renewing in itself
an inch or two of rain, I satisfy
my thirst: taking the water's pristine coolness
into my whole body through my wrists.
Drinking would be too powerful, too clear;
but this unhurried gesture of restraint
fills my whole consciousness with shining water.

Thus, if you came, I could be satisfied
to let my hand rest lightly, for a moment,
lightly, upon your shoulder or your breast.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke, Along the Sun-Drenched Roadside
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1465:I am, O Anxious One. Don't you hear my voice
surging forth with all my earthly feelings?
They yearn so high, that they have sprouted wings
and whitely fly in circles round your face.
My soul, dressed in silence, rises up
and stands alone before you: can't you see?
don't you know that my prayer is growing ripe
upon your vision as upon a tree?
If you are the dreamer, I am what you dream.
But when you want to wake, I am your wish,
and I grow strong with all magnificence
and turn myself into a star's vast silence
above the strange and distant city, Time. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1466:I am, O Anxious One. Don’t you hear my voice
surging forth with all my earthly feelings?
They yearn so high that they have sprouted wings
and whitely fly in circles around your face.
My soul, dressed in silence, rises up
and stands alone before you: can’t you see?
Don’t you know that my prayer is growing ripe
upon your vision, as upon a tree?
If you are the dreamer, I am what you dream.
But when you want to wake, I am your wish,
and I grow strong with all magnificence
and turn myself into a star’s vast silence
above the strange and distant city, Time. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1467:I would like to sing someone to sleep, to sit beside someone and be there. I would like to rock you and sing softly and go with you to and from sleep. I would like to be the one in the house who knew: The night was cold. And I would like to listen in and listen out into you, into the world, into the woods. The clocks shout to one another striking, and one sees to the bottom of time. And down below one last, strange man walks by and rouses a strange dog. And after that comes silence. I have laid my eyes upon you wide; and they hold you gently and let you go when something stirs in the dark. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1468:And your doubt can become a good quality if you train it. It must become knowing, it must become criticism. Ask it, whenever it wants to spoil something for you, why something is ugly, demand proofs from it, test it, and you will find it perhaps bewildered and embarrased, perhaps also protesting. But don't give in, insist on arguments, and act in this way, attentive and persistent, every single time, and the day will come when, instead of being a destroyer, it will become one of your best workers--perhaps the most intelligent of all the ones that are building your life. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1469:Loneliness

Being apart and lonely is like rain.
It climbs toward evening from the ocean plains;
from flat places, rolling and remote, it climbs
to heaven, which is its old abode.
And only when leaving heaven drops upon the city.

It rains down on us in those twittering
hours when the streets turn their faces to the dawn,
and when two bodies who have found nothing,
dissapointed and depressed, roll over;
and when two people who despise each other
have to sleep together in one bed-

that is when loneliness receives the rivers

~ Rainer Maria Rilke, Loneliness
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1470:DIE GAZELLE Gazella Dorcas Verzauberte: wie kann der Einklang zweier erwählter Worte je den Reim erreichen, der in dir kommt und geht, wie auf ein Zeichen. Aus deiner Stirne steigen Laub und Leier, und alles Deine geht schon im Vergleich durch Liebeslieder, deren Worte, weich wie Rosenblätter, dem, der nicht mehr liest, sich auf die Augen legen, die er schließt: um dich zu sehen: hingetragen, als wäre mit Sprüngen jeder Lauf geladen und schösse nur nicht ab, solang der Hals das Haupt ins Horchen hält: wie wenn beim Baden im Wald die Badende sich unterbricht: den Waldsee im gewendeten Gesicht. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1471:Already the ripening barberries are red
And the old asters hardly breathe in their beds.
The man who is not rich now as summer goes
Will wait and wait and never be himself.

The man who cannot quietly close his eyes
certain that there is vision after vision inside,
simply waiting for nighttime
to rise all around him in darkness-
it's all over for him, he's like an old man.

Nothing else will come; no more days will open
and everything that does happen will cheat him.
Even you, my God. And you are like a stone
that draws him daily deeper into the depths. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1472:it is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.

To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all the tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. For this reason young people, who are beginners at everything, cannot yet know love: they have to learn it. With their whole being, with all their forces, gathered close about their lonely, timid, upward-beating heart, they must learn to love. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1473:Oh not because happiness exists,
that too-hasty profit snatched from approaching loss.

*********
But because truly being here is so much; because everything here
apparently needs us, this fleeting world, which is in some strange way
keeps calling to us. Us, the most fleeting of all.

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Ah, but what can we take along
into that other realm? Not the act of looking,
which is learned so slowly, and nothing that happened here. Nothing.
The sufferings, then. And above all, the heaviness,
and long experience of love, – just what is wholly
unsayable. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1474:And your doubts can become a good quality if you school them. They must grow to be knowledgeable, they must learn to be critical. As soon as they begin to spoil something for you ask them why a thing is ugly, demand hard evidence, test them, and you will perhaps find them at a loss and short of an answer, or perhaps mutinous. But do not give in, request arguments, and act with this kind of attentiveness and consistency every single time, and the day will come when instead of being demolishers they will be among your best workers–perhaps the canniest of all those at work on the building of your life. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1475:How my body blooms from every vein
more fragrantly, since you appeared to me;
look, I walk slimmer now and straighter,
and all you do is wait-:who are you then?

Look: I feel how I'm moving away,
how I'm shedding my old life, leaf by leaf.
Only your smile spreads like sheer stars
over you and, soon now, over me.

Whatever shines through my childhood years
still nameless and gleaming like water,
I will name after you at the altar,
which is blazing brightly from your hair
and braided gently with your breasts.
Translated by Edward Snow

~ Rainer Maria Rilke, Sacrifice
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1476: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 it has failed to see whither this person has gone, it has failed to accompany her in her broadest development, it has failed to spread itself out over the new distances this person embraces, and it hasn’t ceased looking for her at a certain point in her growth, it wants obstinately to hold fast to a definite beauty beyond which she has passed, instead of persevering, confident of new shared beauties to come.”

—from letter to Paula Modersohn-Becker Bremen (February 12, 1902) ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1477:Simply she stands at the cathedrals
great ascent, close to the rose window,
with the apple in the apple-pose,
guiltless-guilty once and for all

of the growing she gave birth to
since form the circle of eternities
loving she went forth, top struggle through
her way throughout the earth like a young year.

Ah, gladly yet a little in that land
Would she have lingered, heeding the harmony
And understanding of the animals.

But since she found the man determined,
She went with him, aspiring after death,
And she had as yet hardly known God.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke, Eve
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1478:So it's back once more, back up the slope.
Why do they always ruin my rope
with their cuts?
I felt so ready the other day,
Had a real foretaste of eternity
In my guts.

Spoonfeeding me yet another sip
from life's cup.
I don't want it, won't take any more of it.
Let me throw up.

Life is medium rare and good, I see,
And the world full of soup and bread,
But it won't pass into the blood for me,
Just goes to my head.

It makes me ill, though others it feeds;
Do see that I must deny it!
For a thousand years from now at least
I'm keeping a diet. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1479:And when you realize that their activities are shabby, that their vocations are petrified and no longer connected with life, why not then continue to look upon it all as a child would, as if you were looking at something unfamiliar, out of the depths of your own solitude, which is itself work and status and vocation? Why should you want to give up a child’s wise not-understanding in exchange for a defensiveness and scorn, since not-understanding is, after all, a way of being alone, whereas defensiveness and scorn are participation in precisely what, by these means, you want to separate yourself from. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1480:Breathing: you invisible poem! Complete
interchange of our own
essence with world-space. You counterweight
in which I rhythmically happen.

Single wave-motion whose
gradual sea I am:
you, most inclusive of all our possible seas-
space has grown warm.

How many regions in space have already been
inside me. There are winds that seem like
my wandering son.

Do you recognize me, air, full of places I once absorbed?
You who were the smooth bark,
roundness, and leaf of my words.
Translated by Stephen Mitchell

~ Rainer Maria Rilke, The Sonnets To Orpheus - Book 2 - I
,
1481:Ever since those wondrous days of Creation
our Lord God sleeps: we are His sleep.
And He accepted this in His indulgence,
resigned to rest among the distant stars.

Our actions stopped Him from reacting,
for His fist-tight hand is numbed by sleep,
and the times brought in the age of heroes
during which our dark hearts plundered Him.

Sometimes He appears as if tormented,
and His body jerks as if plagued by pain;
but these spells are always outweighed by the
number of His countless other worlds.
Translated by Albert Ernest Flemming

~ Rainer Maria Rilke, In The Beginning
,
1482:How I have felt that thing that's called 'to part',
and feel it still: a dark, invincible,
cruel something by which what was joined so well
is once more shown, held out, and torn apart.

In what defenceless gaze at that I've stood,
which, as it, calling to me, let me go,
stayed there, as though it were all womanhood,
yet small and white and nothing more than, oh,

waving, now already unrelated
to me, a sight, continuing wave,scarce now
explainable: perhaps a plum-tree bough
some perching cuckoo's hastily vacated.
Translated by J.B. Leishman

~ Rainer Maria Rilke, Parting
,
1483:For this reason, my dear Sir, the only advice I have is this: to go into yourself and to examine the depths from which your life springs; at its source you will find the answer to the question of whether you have to write. Accept this answer as it is, without seeking to interpret it. Perhaps it will turn out that you are called to be an artist. Then assume this fate and bear it, its burden and its greatness, without ever asking after the rewards that may come from outside. For he who creates must be a world of his own and find everything within himself and in the natural world that he has elected to follow. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1484:Whom will you cry to, heart? More and more lonely,
your path struggles on through incomprehensible
mankind. All the more futile perhaps
for keeping to its direction,
keeping on toward the future,
toward what has been lost.

Once. You lamented? What was it? A fallen berry
of jubilation, unripe.
But now the whole tree of my jubilation
is breaking, in the storm it is breaking, my slow
tree of joy.
Loveliest in my invisible
landscape, you that made me more known
to the invisible angels.
Translated by Stephen Mitchell

~ Rainer Maria Rilke, Lament (Whom will you cry to, heart?)
,
1485:Der Panther

Im Jardin des Plantes, Paris

Sein Blick ist vom Vorübergehn der Stäbe
so müd geworden, dass er nichts mehr hält.
Ihm ist, als ob es tausend Stäbe gäbe
und hinter tausend Stäben keine Welt.

Der weiche Gang geschmeidig starker Schritte,
der sich im allerkleinsten Kreise dreht,
ist wie ein Tanz von Kraft um eine Mitte,
in der betäubt ein großer Wille steht.

Nur manchmal schiebt der Vorhang der Pupille
sich lautlos auf -. Dann geht ein Bild hinein,
geht durch der Glieder angespannte Stille -
und hört im Herzen auf zu sein.

6.11.1902, Paris ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1486:And when this power [Richard Dehmel's poetic power], coursing through his being, reaches his sexuality, it doesn't find quite the pure human being it needs. The world of sexuality it finds is not entirely mature and pure, it is not human enough, only virile, rut, intoxication, restlessness, and weighed down by the old prejudices and arrogance with which men have disfigured and overburdened love. Because he loves only as a man, not as a human being, there is in his sense of sexuality something narrow, seemingly savage, hateful, time-bound, uneternal that diminishes his art and makes it ambivalent and doubtful. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1487:The sky puts on the darkening blue coat
held for it by a row of ancient trees;
you watch: and the lands grow distant in your sight,
one journeying to heaven, one that falls;

and leave you, not at home in either one,
not quite so still and dark as the darkened houses,
not calling to eternity with the passion of what becomes
  a star each night, and rises;

and leave you (inexpressibly to unravel)
your life, with its immensity and fear,
so that, now bounded, now immeasurable,
it is alternately stone in you and star.
Translated by Stephen Mitchell

~ Rainer Maria Rilke, Evening
,
1488:So rescue yourself from these general themes and write about what your everyday life offers you; describe your sorrows and desires, the thoughts that pass through your mind and your belief in some kind of beauty — describe all these with heartfelt, silent, humble sincerity and, when you express yourself, use the Things around you, the images from your dreams, and the objects that you remember. If your everyday life seems poor, don’t blame it; blame yourself; admit to yourself that you are not enough of a poet to call forth its riches; because for the creator there is not poverty and no poor, indifferent place. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1489:Ist es möglich, dass es Leute giebt, welche ‚Gott’ sagen und meinen, das wäre etwas Gemeinsames? - Und sieh nur zwei Schulkinder: es kauft sich der eine ein Messer, und sein Nachbar kauft sich ein ganz gleiches am selben Tag. Und sie zeigen einander nach einer Woche die beiden Messer, und es ergiebt sich, dass sie sich nur noch ganz entfernt ähnlich sehen, - so verschieden haben sie sich in verschiedenen Händen entwickelt. (Ja, sagt des einen Mutter dazu: wenn ihr auch gleich immer alles abnutzen müsst. -) Ach so: Ist es möglich, zu glauben, man könnte einen Gott haben, ohne ihn zu gebrauchen?
Ja, es ist möglich. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1490:LET THIS DARKNESS BE A BELLTOWER

Quiet friend who has come so far,
feel how your breathing makes more space around you.
Let this darkness be a bell tower
and you the bell. As you ring,

what batters you becomes your strength.
Move back and forth into the change.
What is it like, such intensity of pain?
If the drink is bitter, turn yourself to wine.

In this uncontainable night,
be the mystery at the crossroads of your senses,
the meaning discovered there.

And if the world has ceased to hear you,
say to the silent earth: I flow.
To the rushing water, speak: I am. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1491:Let This Darkness Be a Bell Tower

Quiet friend who has come so far,
feel how your breathing makes more space around you.
Let this darkness be a bell tower
and you the bell. As you ring,

what batters you becomes your strength.
Move back and forth into the change.
What is it like, such intensity of pain?
If the drink is bitter, turn yourself to wine.

In this uncontainable night,
be the mystery at the crossroads of your senses,
the meaning discovered there.

And if the world has ceased to hear you,
say to the silent earth: I flow.
To the rushing water, speak: I am. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1492:Everything is far
and long gone by.
I think that the star
glittering above me
has been dead for a million years.
I think there were tears
in the car I heard pass
and something terrible was said.
A clock has stopped striking in the house
across the road
When did it start?
I would like to step out of my heart
an go walking beneath the enormous sky.
I would like to pray.
And surely of all the stars that perished
long ago,
one still exists.
I think that I know
which one it is
which one, at the end of its beam in the sky,
stands like a white city

~ Rainer Maria Rilke, Lament
,
1493:This advance (at first very much against the will of the outdistanced men) will transform the love experience, which is now filled with error, will change it from the ground up, and reshape it into a relationship that is meant to be between one human being and another, no longer one that flows from man to woman. And this more human love (which will fulfill itself with infinite consideration and gentleness, and kindness and clarity in binding and releasing) will resemble what we are now preparing painfully and with great struggle: the love that consists in this: that two solitudes protect and border and greet each other. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1494:And your doubts can become a good quality if you school them. They must grow to be knowledgeable, they must learn to be critical. As soon as they begin to spoil something for you ask them why a thing is ugly, demand hard evidence, test them, and you will perhaps find them at a loss and short of an answer, or perhaps mutinous. But do not give in, request arguments, and act with this kind of attentiveness and consistency every single time, and the day will come when instead of being demolishers they will be among your best workers--perhaps the canniest of all those at work on the building of your life. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1495:Along The Sun-Drenched Roadside


Along the sun-drenched roadside, from the great
hollow half-treetrunk, which for generations
has been a trough, renewing in itself
an inch or two of rain, I satisfy
my thirst: taking the water's pristine coolness
into my whole body through my wrists.
Drinking would be too powerful, too clear;
but this unhurried gesture of restraint
fills my whole consciousness with shining water.

Thus, if you came, I could be satisfied
to let my hand rest lightly, for a moment,
lightly, upon your shoulder or your breast.


Translated by Stephen Mitchell ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1496:This night, agitated by the growing storm,
how it has suddenly expanded its dimensions,
that ordinarily would have gone unnoticed,
like a cloth folded, and hidden in the folds of time.

Where the stars give resistance it does not stop there,
neither does it begin within the forest's depths,
nor show upon the surface of my face
nor with your appearance.

The lamps keep swaying, fully unaware:
is our light lying?
Is night the only reality
that has endured through thousands of years?

Translated by Albert Ernest Flemming

~ Rainer Maria Rilke, Night (This night, agitated by the growing storm)
,
1497:Is Abelone beautiful? I asked myself, surprised. Then I left home to go to the Academy for Young Noblemen; it was the start of a distasteful and harmful period. But there at Soro whenever I separated myself from the others and they let me stand in peace at the window I would look out in amongst the trees; and in such moments and at night the certainty grew in me that Abelone was beautiful. And I started writing her all those letters, lengthy ones and short, many of them secret letters in which I thought I was writing about Ulsgaard and about my present unhappiness . But, as I see it now, they may well have been love letters. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1498:Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels’ hierarchies?
And even if one of them pressed me suddenly against his heart:
I would be consumed in that overwhelming existence.
For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we are still just able to endure,
And we are so awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us.
Every angel is terrifying.
And so I hold myself back and swallow the call-note of my dark sobbing.
Ah, whom can we ever turn to in our need?
Not angels, not humans, and already the knowing animals are aware
That we are not really at home in our interpreted world. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1499:[…] Ich bin für einen Tag herübergefahren in die Kairouan, nächst Mekka der große Pilgerort des Islam, den Sidi Okba, ein Gefährte des Propheten, aufgerichtet hat in den großen Ebenen und der sich aus den Zerstörungen immer wieder erhoben hat um die ungeheure Moschee herum … Wie eine Vision liegt die flache weiße Stadt da in ihren rundzinnigen Wällen, mit nichts als Ebene und Gräben um sich […]. Wunderbar empfindet man hier die Einfachheit und Lebendigkeit dieser Religion, der Prophet ist wie gestern, und die Stadt ist wie sein Reich […]

(Rainer Maria Rilke in einem Brief an Clara Rilke, Kairouan, Tunesien, am 21.12.1910) ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1500:As in sleeping-drink spices
softly she loosens in the liquid-clear
mirror her fatigued demeanor;
and she puts her smile deep inside.

And she waits while the liquid
rises from it; then she pours her hair
into the mirror, and, lifting one
wondrous shoulder from the evening gown,

she drinks quietly from her image. She drinks
what a lover would drink feeling dazed,
searching it, full of mistrust; and she only

beckons to her maid when at the bottom
of her mirror she finds candles, wardrobes,
and the cloudy dregs of a late hour.
Translated by Edward Snow

~ Rainer Maria Rilke, Lady At A Mirror
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1. Rilke, Rainer Maria Rilke ::: (German poet (born in Austria) whose imagery and mystic lyricism influenced 20th-century German literature (1875-1926))


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Sense 1
Rilke, Rainer Maria Rilke
   INSTANCE OF=> poet
     => writer, author
       => communicator
         => person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
           => organism, being
             => living thing, animate thing
               => whole, unit
                 => object, physical object
                   => physical entity
                     => entity
           => causal agent, cause, causal agency
             => physical entity
               => entity


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Sense 1
Rilke, Rainer Maria Rilke
   INSTANCE OF=> poet




--- Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun rainer_maria_rilke

1 sense of rainer maria rilke                    

Sense 1
Rilke, Rainer Maria Rilke
  -> poet
   => bard
   => elegist
   => odist
   => poetess
   => poet laureate
   => poet laureate
   => sonneteer
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   HAS INSTANCE=> Corneille, Pierre Corneille
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   HAS INSTANCE=> Frost, Robert Frost, Robert Lee Frost
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   HAS INSTANCE=> Gilbert, William Gilbert, William S. Gilbert, William Schwenk Gilbert, Sir William Gilbert
   HAS INSTANCE=> Ginsberg, Allen Ginsberg
   HAS INSTANCE=> Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
   HAS INSTANCE=> Gongora, Luis de Gongora y Argote
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   HAS INSTANCE=> Herrick, Robert Herrick
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   HAS INSTANCE=> Hogg, James Hogg
   HAS INSTANCE=> Homer
   HAS INSTANCE=> Hopkins, Gerard Manley Hopkins
   HAS INSTANCE=> Horace
   HAS INSTANCE=> Housman, A. E. Housman, Alfred Edward Housman
   HAS INSTANCE=> Hughes, Ted Hughes, Edward James Hughes
   HAS INSTANCE=> Hugo, Victor Hugo, Victor-Marie Hugo
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   HAS INSTANCE=> Lucretius, Titus Lucretius Carus
   HAS INSTANCE=> MacLeish, Archibald MacLeish
   HAS INSTANCE=> Mallarme, Stephane Mallarme
   HAS INSTANCE=> Mandelstam, Osip Mandelstam, Osip Emilevich Mandelstam, Mandelshtam
   HAS INSTANCE=> Marini, Giambattista Marini, Marino, Giambattista Marino
   HAS INSTANCE=> Marlowe, Christopher Marlowe
   HAS INSTANCE=> Marti, Jose Julian Marti
   HAS INSTANCE=> Martial
   HAS INSTANCE=> Marvell, Andrew Marvell
   HAS INSTANCE=> Masefield, John Masefield, John Edward Masefield
   HAS INSTANCE=> Masters, Edgar Lee Masters
   HAS INSTANCE=> Mayakovski, Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovski
   HAS INSTANCE=> Meredith, George Meredith
   HAS INSTANCE=> Milton, John Milton
   HAS INSTANCE=> Moore, Marianne Moore, Marianne Craig Moore
   HAS INSTANCE=> Moore, Thomas Moore
   HAS INSTANCE=> Morris, William Morris
   HAS INSTANCE=> Musset, Alfred de Musset, Louis Charles Alfred de Musset
   HAS INSTANCE=> Neruda, Pablo Neruda, Reyes, Neftali Ricardo Reyes
   HAS INSTANCE=> Noyes, Alfred Noyes
   HAS INSTANCE=> Omar Khayyam
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   HAS INSTANCE=> Palgrave, Francis Turner Palgrave
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   HAS INSTANCE=> Pindar
   HAS INSTANCE=> Plath, Sylvia Plath
   HAS INSTANCE=> Poe, Edgar Allan Poe
   HAS INSTANCE=> Pope, Alexander Pope
   HAS INSTANCE=> Pound, Ezra Pound, Ezra Loomis Pound
   HAS INSTANCE=> Pushkin, Alexander Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin
   HAS INSTANCE=> Racine, Jean Racine, Jean Baptiste Racine
   HAS INSTANCE=> Riley, James Whitcomb Riley
   HAS INSTANCE=> Rilke, Rainer Maria Rilke
   HAS INSTANCE=> Rimbaud, Arthur Rimbaud, Jean Nicholas Arthur Rimbaud
   HAS INSTANCE=> Robinson, Edwin Arlington Robinson
   HAS INSTANCE=> Rostand, Edmond Rostand
   HAS INSTANCE=> Seeger, Alan Seeger
   HAS INSTANCE=> Sexton, Anne Sexton
   HAS INSTANCE=> Shakespeare, William Shakespeare, Shakspere, William Shakspere, Bard of Avon
   HAS INSTANCE=> Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley
   HAS INSTANCE=> Shevchenko, Taras Grigoryevich Shevchenko
   HAS INSTANCE=> Sidney, Sir Philip Sidney
   HAS INSTANCE=> Silverstein, Shel Silverstein, Shelby Silverstein
   HAS INSTANCE=> Sitwell, Dame Edith Sitwell, Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell
   HAS INSTANCE=> Southey, Robert Southey
   HAS INSTANCE=> Spender, Stephen Spender, Sir Stephen Harold Spender
   HAS INSTANCE=> Spenser, Edmund Spenser
   HAS INSTANCE=> Stevens, Wallace Stevens
   HAS INSTANCE=> Suckling, Sir John Suckling
   HAS INSTANCE=> Swinburne, Algernon Charles Swinburne
   HAS INSTANCE=> Symons, Arthur Symons
   HAS INSTANCE=> Synge, J. M. Synge, John Millington Synge, Edmund John Millington Synge
   HAS INSTANCE=> Tasso, Torquato Tasso
   HAS INSTANCE=> Tate, Allen Tate, John Orley Allen Tate
   HAS INSTANCE=> Teasdale, Sara Teasdale
   HAS INSTANCE=> Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, First Baron Tennyson, Alfred Lord Tennyson
   HAS INSTANCE=> Thespis
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   HAS INSTANCE=> Trumbull, John Trumbull
   HAS INSTANCE=> Tzara, Tristan Tzara, Samuel Rosenstock
   HAS INSTANCE=> Uhland, Johann Ludwig Uhland
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   HAS INSTANCE=> Villon, Francois Villon
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   HAS INSTANCE=> Warren, Robert Penn Warren
   HAS INSTANCE=> Watts, Isaac Watts
   HAS INSTANCE=> Wheatley, Phillis Wheatley
   HAS INSTANCE=> Whitman, Walt Whitman
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   HAS INSTANCE=> Wordsworth, William Wordsworth
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   HAS INSTANCE=> Yeats, William Butler Yeats, W. B. Yeats
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Wikipedia - Internet Watch Foundation
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Knight Rider (1982 - 1986) - Its an action/adventure series about a former cop who, during a sting operation, was double-crossed and was left for dead. But luckily, was found by some people who rescued him and took him to The Foundation of Law and Government where doctors (through plastic surgery, since he was shot In The Face)...
Team Knight Rider (1997 - 1998) - Fifteen years have past since Michael Knight and KITT roamed the California countryside, eliminating obstacles and persons under the guise of FLAG, the Foundation for Law and Government. Now, Michael Knight is replaced by five, cunning yet clever operatives, and KITT is replaced by five other sophis...
Hypernauts (1995 - 1996) - Hypernauts was a proof of concept show made by Foundation Imaging. To further prove that the computer-generated imagery and visual effects created in Babylon 5 were easily applied to other venues, the Hypernauts were born. ABC purchased thirteen episodes of the show from DIC Entertainment, eight of...
Jem: the movie(1985) - Jerrica Benton is the owner of Starlight Music and the Starlight Foundation, which is a foster home for young girls. But by using her earrings to project a holographic image over herself, she is transformed into her alter ego Jem, the lead singer for the successful music group, Jem and the Holograms...
Have Rocket, Will Travel(1959) - The Three Stooges are bumbling janitors at The National Space Foundation..who find out that the creator of the rocket fuel"Dr.Narvig"is in trouble..her fuel is not helping the rocket travel into space and unless she can create a new super fuel..the US government will shut down the program.The boys c...
Apocalypto(2006) - The Mayan kingdom is at the height of its opulence and power but the foundations of the empire are beginning to crumble. The leaders believe they must build more temples and sacrifice more people or their crops and citizens will die. Jaguar Paw (Rudy Youngblood), a peaceful hunter in a remote tribe,...
Sci-Fi | TV Series (2021- ) ::: Connections -- 2021 -- 10 episodes Foundation Poster -- A complex saga of humans scattered on planets throughout the galaxy all living under the rule of the Galactic Empire. Stars: Cassian Bilton, Laura Birn, Jared Harris
The Da Vinci Code (2006) ::: 6.6/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 29min | Mystery, Thriller | 19 May 2006 (USA) -- A murder inside the Louvre, and clues in Da Vinci paintings, lead to the discovery of a religious mystery protected by a secret society for two thousand years, which could shake the foundations of Christianity. Director: Ron Howard Writers:
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Ankoku Shinwa -- -- Ajia-Do -- 2 eps -- Manga -- Demons Fantasy Horror Mystery Psychological Supernatural -- Ankoku Shinwa Ankoku Shinwa -- Long ago there were fierce gods of legends who shook the earth to its foundation with their power. There are now prehistoric rivals from the primitive times in Japan, that fought to protect their secrets in the present day. The God of Darkness Susanoah-oh is now sleeping in the shadows of the underworld waiting for his rebirth. However his coming hasn't gone unoticed. There are agents from the Kikuchi Clan (descendants of Japans first inhabitants) who have seen the warning signs of the spreading of darkness's bringing. These investigators are armed with ancient knowledge and artifacts who are willingly prepared to face the God of Darkness. Now they must fight the assembled spirits of hell to find the one young boy who is chosen by fate to grasp the chaotic might of the deadly Gods. -- -- (Source: ANN) -- -- Licensor: -- Manga Entertainment -- OVA - Jan 26, 1990 -- 2,338 4.18
Back Arrow -- -- Studio VOLN -- 24 eps -- Original -- Action Fantasy Mecha -- Back Arrow Back Arrow -- The world of Lingalind is surrounded by a mystical wall with seemingly nothing beyond its confines. Worshipped as the mother of the land, the wall delivers celestial gift capsules called "Rakuho'' to locations across the continent. Arriving once a month, the capsules contain metallic armbands that allow the wearer to transform into a mechanical being known as a "Briheight." As a result, Lingalind is thrown into constant turmoil by its warring nations, all hoping to strengthen their military prowess by procuring the offerings for themselves. -- -- One day, a Rakuho crash-lands in the countryside with an unexpected inhabitant—a mysterious black-haired man. All eyes are set on this strange newcomer, who calls himself "Back Arrow," when he claims to have hailed from a place beyond the wall—a revelation that can potentially unravel Lingalind's entire dogmatic foundation. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 25,402 5.69
Corpse Party: Tortured Souls - Bougyakusareta Tamashii no Jukyou -- -- Asread -- 4 eps -- Visual novel -- Mystery Horror Supernatural -- Corpse Party: Tortured Souls - Bougyakusareta Tamashii no Jukyou Corpse Party: Tortured Souls - Bougyakusareta Tamashii no Jukyou -- Nine students gather in their high school at night to bid farewell to a friend. As is customary among many high school students, they perform a sort of ritual for them to remain friends forever, using small paper charms shaped like dolls. -- -- However, the students do not realize that these charms are connected to Heavenly Host Academy—an elementary school that was destroyed years ago after a series of gruesome murders took place, a school that rests under the foundation of their very own Kisaragi Academy. Now, trapped in an alternate dimension with vengeful ghosts of the past, the students must work together to escape—or join the spirits of the damned forever. -- -- A feast for mystery fanatics, gore-hounds, and horror fans alike, Corpse Party: Tortured Souls - Bougyakusareta Tamashii no Jukyou shows a sobering look at redemption, sacrifice, and how the past is always right behind, sometimes a little too close for comfort. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Maiden Japan -- OVA - Jul 24, 2013 -- 296,149 6.55
Danganronpa 3: The End of Kibougamine Gakuen - Kibou-hen -- -- Lerche -- 1 ep -- Game -- Action Mystery Horror Psychological -- Danganronpa 3: The End of Kibougamine Gakuen - Kibou-hen Danganronpa 3: The End of Kibougamine Gakuen - Kibou-hen -- The Future Foundation is in shambles after the Final Killing Game and the revelation of the true culprit. As a desperate plot arises from one of the survivors to rid the world of despair once and for all, the remaining Future Foundation members must band together to stop this atrocity from taking place. Fortunately, they find themselves with help from a group of unlikely allies as they race against the clock to stop their world from being changed. -- -- In this finale to the Hope's Peak storyline of the Danganronpa series, the players in this neverending death game begin to understand the true meaning behind despair, hope, and atonement. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- Special - Sep 29, 2016 -- 138,056 7.51
Danganronpa 3: The End of Kibougamine Gakuen - Mirai-hen -- -- Lerche -- 12 eps -- Game -- Action Mystery Horror Psychological -- Danganronpa 3: The End of Kibougamine Gakuen - Mirai-hen Danganronpa 3: The End of Kibougamine Gakuen - Mirai-hen -- After Makoto Naegi and his fellow survivors escaped Hope's Peak Academy to the world beyond, they soon join the Future Foundation, an organization dedicated to combating despair. Just when all seems to be looking up, Naegi is arrested and tried for betrayal due to defending a malicious group of Remnants of Despair. Standing before all of the Future Foundation executives, he finds himself, along with Kyouko Kirigiri and Aoi Asahina, facing an unknown fate. -- -- The matter at hand only escalates when the organization's supposedly impenetrable security is hacked into by a -- familiar face: Monokuma. Much to Naegi's horror, the mechanical bear immediately announces the beginning of a new killing game, as moments later, the first victim appears as a signal for despair to resume its brutal conquest. -- -- In the conclusion to Danganronpa's gripping tale of hope and despair, Naegi, the Super High School-Level Lucky Student, must once again unravel the mystery as his colleagues and friends begin falling around him. However, there are no more class trials; among the 16 desperate participants, there is only one killer—and their death means the end of this infernal game. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 269,450 7.33
Dragon Ball Super Movie: Broly -- -- Toei Animation -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Action Adventure Super Power Martial Arts Fantasy Shounen -- Dragon Ball Super Movie: Broly Dragon Ball Super Movie: Broly -- Forty-one years ago on Planet Vegeta, home of the infamous Saiyan warrior race, King Vegeta noticed a baby named Broly whose latent power exceeded that of his own son. Believing that Broly's power would one day surpass that of his child, Vegeta, the king sends Broly to the desolate planet Vampa. Broly's father Paragus follows after him, intent on rescuing his son. However, his ship gets damaged, causing the two to spend years trapped on the barren world, unaware of the salvation that would one day come from an unlikely ally. -- -- Years later on Earth, Gokuu Son and Prince Vegeta—believed to be the last survivors of the Saiyan race—are busy training on a remote island. But their sparring is interrupted when the appearance of their old enemy Frieza drives them to search for the last of the wish-granting Dragon Balls on a frozen continent. Once there, Frieza shows off his new allies: Paragus and the now extremely powerful Broly. A legendary battle that shakes the foundation of the world ensues as Gokuu and Vegeta face off against Broly, a warrior without equal whose rage is just waiting to be unleashed. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- Movie - Dec 14, 2018 -- 224,797 8.10
Dragon Ball Super Movie: Broly -- -- Toei Animation -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Action Adventure Super Power Martial Arts Fantasy Shounen -- Dragon Ball Super Movie: Broly Dragon Ball Super Movie: Broly -- Forty-one years ago on Planet Vegeta, home of the infamous Saiyan warrior race, King Vegeta noticed a baby named Broly whose latent power exceeded that of his own son. Believing that Broly's power would one day surpass that of his child, Vegeta, the king sends Broly to the desolate planet Vampa. Broly's father Paragus follows after him, intent on rescuing his son. However, his ship gets damaged, causing the two to spend years trapped on the barren world, unaware of the salvation that would one day come from an unlikely ally. -- -- Years later on Earth, Gokuu Son and Prince Vegeta—believed to be the last survivors of the Saiyan race—are busy training on a remote island. But their sparring is interrupted when the appearance of their old enemy Frieza drives them to search for the last of the wish-granting Dragon Balls on a frozen continent. Once there, Frieza shows off his new allies: Paragus and the now extremely powerful Broly. A legendary battle that shakes the foundation of the world ensues as Gokuu and Vegeta face off against Broly, a warrior without equal whose rage is just waiting to be unleashed. -- -- Movie - Dec 14, 2018 -- 224,797 8.10
Fate/Grand Order: Zettai Majuu Sensen Babylonia -- -- CloverWorks -- 21 eps -- Game -- Action Supernatural Magic Fantasy -- Fate/Grand Order: Zettai Majuu Sensen Babylonia Fate/Grand Order: Zettai Majuu Sensen Babylonia -- A.D. 2016, the foundations of humanity have been incinerated by the Mage King Solomon. Chaldea, a secret mages organization with the mission to preserve humanity's future, foresaw mankind's extinction in 2015. Thus commenced the operation to repair the Singularities in history caused by Holy Grails dispersed across time and space—Operation Grand Order. -- -- Using the Rayshift time travel technology, Chaldea's last master Ritsuka Fujimaru and his demi-servant Mash Kyrielight have traveled to and resolved six Singularities. Now, they depart for their most dangerous destination yet: a civilization in the Age of Gods, B.C. 2655 Mesopotamia. Ritsuka and Mash soon discover that Demonic Beasts roam the land, attacking people and towns. Amidst chaos and terror lies humanity's last defense—Uruk, a fortress city that acts as the frontline for the battle against the beasts. The battlefront is commanded by none other than King Gilgamesh, the King of Heroes, who sought aid from Heroic Spirits and took on the role of a mage to protect his city. -- -- Along with Gilgamesh and the summoned servants, Ritsuka and Mash must protect Uruk against the magical beasts' onslaught and defeat the Three Goddess Alliance who aims to eradicate humankind; all the while, a greater threat looms over Uruk, preparing for its awakening. -- -- 173,690 7.94
Fate/Grand Order: Zettai Majuu Sensen Babylonia -- -- CloverWorks -- 21 eps -- Game -- Action Supernatural Magic Fantasy -- Fate/Grand Order: Zettai Majuu Sensen Babylonia Fate/Grand Order: Zettai Majuu Sensen Babylonia -- A.D. 2016, the foundations of humanity have been incinerated by the Mage King Solomon. Chaldea, a secret mages organization with the mission to preserve humanity's future, foresaw mankind's extinction in 2015. Thus commenced the operation to repair the Singularities in history caused by Holy Grails dispersed across time and space—Operation Grand Order. -- -- Using the Rayshift time travel technology, Chaldea's last master Ritsuka Fujimaru and his demi-servant Mash Kyrielight have traveled to and resolved six Singularities. Now, they depart for their most dangerous destination yet: a civilization in the Age of Gods, B.C. 2655 Mesopotamia. Ritsuka and Mash soon discover that Demonic Beasts roam the land, attacking people and towns. Amidst chaos and terror lies humanity's last defense—Uruk, a fortress city that acts as the frontline for the battle against the beasts. The battlefront is commanded by none other than King Gilgamesh, the King of Heroes, who sought aid from Heroic Spirits and took on the role of a mage to protect his city. -- -- Along with Gilgamesh and the summoned servants, Ritsuka and Mash must protect Uruk against the magical beasts' onslaught and defeat the Three Goddess Alliance who aims to eradicate humankind; all the while, a greater threat looms over Uruk, preparing for its awakening. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Aniplex of America -- 173,690 7.94
Gakusen Toshi Asterisk -- -- A-1 Pictures -- 12 eps -- Light novel -- Action Comedy Ecchi Fantasy Harem Romance School Sci-Fi Supernatural -- Gakusen Toshi Asterisk Gakusen Toshi Asterisk -- In the previous century, an unprecedented disaster known as the Invertia drastically reformed the world. The powers of existing nations declined significantly, paving the way for a conglomerate called the Integrated Empire Foundation to assume control. But more importantly, the Invertia led to the emergence of a new species of humans who are born with phenomenal physical capabilities—the Genestella. Its elite are hand-picked across the globe to attend the top six schools, and they duel amongst themselves in entertainment battles called Festas. -- -- Ayato Amagiri is a scholarship transfer student at the prestigious Seidoukan Academy, which has recently been suffering from declining performances. Through a series of events, he accidentally sees the popular Witch of Resplendent Flames, Julis-Alexia von Riessfeld, half-dressed! Enraged, Julis challenges him to a duel for intruding on her privacy. After said duel is voided by the student council president, Ayato reveals that he has no interest in Festas. Instead, he has enrolled in the academy to investigate the whereabouts of his missing elder sister. But when a more devious plot unravels, Ayato sets out to achieve victory, while being surrounded by some of the most talented Genestella on the planet. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Aniplex of America -- 507,111 6.88
Jormungand: Perfect Order -- -- White Fox -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Action Adventure Seinen -- Jormungand: Perfect Order Jormungand: Perfect Order -- Still in pursuit of her ambitious goal, ingenious arms dealer Koko Hekmatyar, inexpressive child soldier Jonathan “Jonah” Mar, and the rest of their squad continue their mercenary activities. From professional assassins to private militaries, the group's work constantly puts them in the face of danger. -- -- But internal conflicts soon arise after Renato "R" Socci, one of Koko's bodyguards, is revealed to be an undercover agent for "Operation Undershaft"—a plan devised by the CIA to infiltrate HCLI and exploit Koko as a tool. Shocked by his betrayal, Koko's leadership is needed now more than ever to rally her squad and rebuild their foundation of trust before they are torn apart. -- -- Jormungand: Perfect Order follows Koko and the rest of her crew as they take on persistent adversaries, overcome internal struggles, and make Koko's vision of world peace a reality—where everything is in perfect order. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- TV - Oct 10, 2012 -- 155,241 7.93
Kami no Tou -- -- Telecom Animation Film -- 13 eps -- Web manga -- Action Adventure Mystery Drama Fantasy -- Kami no Tou Kami no Tou -- There is a tower that summons chosen people called "Regulars" with the promise of granting their deepest desires. Whether it be wealth, fame, authority, or something that surpasses them all—everything awaits those who reach the top. -- -- Twenty-Fifth Bam is a boy who had only known a dark cave, a dirty cloth, and an unreachable light his entire life. So when a girl named Rachel came to him through the light, his entire world changed. Becoming close friends with Rachel, he learned various things about the outside world from her. But when Rachel says she must leave him to climb the Tower, his world shatters around him. Vowing to follow after her no matter what it takes, he sets his sight on the tower, and a miracle occurs. -- -- Thus begins the journey of Bam, a young boy who was not chosen by the Tower but opened its gates by himself. They call his kind "Irregulars"—beings that have shaken the very foundation of the Tower each time they set foot inside it. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Crunchyroll -- 584,626 7.62
Kono Oto Tomare! 2nd Season -- -- Platinum Vision -- 13 eps -- Manga -- Drama Music Romance School Shounen -- Kono Oto Tomare! 2nd Season Kono Oto Tomare! 2nd Season -- The Tokise High School Koto Club has courageously pushed through their fractured and unsynchronized performance at the Kanto Region Traditional Japanese Music Festival. Clubmembers Chika Kudou, Satowa Houzuki, Takezou Kurata, Hiro Kurusu, Kouta Mizuhara, Saneyasu Adachi, and Michitaka Sakai are devastated to learn the negative results of their performance, leaving them crushed. Nonetheless, the group recognizes their potential and enthusiastically agree to collectively sharpen their skills, improve their flaws, and develop higher caliber playing to succeed in the upcoming national qualifiers in winter. -- -- With the help of their now willing club advisor Suzuka Takinami, the group's goal gradually becomes achievable as they begin to grasp the foundations of good music and refine their koto-playing abilities, with the suggestion of performing more often to gain what they lack most—experience. -- -- However, as their journey to nationals is underway, the koto club members face challenges that obstruct their focus and progress. Not only does the threat of other powerhouse schools and musicians remain, but the high school issues of budding romance and soon-to-be-graduating seniors also begin to push the limits of the determined group of teenagers and the future of the koto club. -- -- 90,539 8.42
Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn RE:0096 -- -- Sunrise -- 22 eps -- Novel -- Action Drama Mecha Military Sci-Fi Space -- Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn RE:0096 Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn RE:0096 -- By the year 0096 of the Universal Century, a fragile peace emerges from the ashes of conflict. Sixteen-year-old student Banagher Links visits the Industrial 7 space colony on a school field trip, but because of a broken shuttle, he is left completely stranded. -- -- To Banagher, who has always lived a normal life, war had always been a distant, almost mythical part of history; but within minutes, fantasy becomes reality when he rescues a girl named Audrey Burne, who urgently needs to meet with the leader of the nearby Vist Foundation, Cardeas Vist. She hopes to persuade him to withhold the "Laplace's Box," an object that holds the potential to destroy the world. History is set in motion as galactic forces converge on Industrial 7, each vying for possession of the Laplace's Box. As Neo Zeon remnants clash with Earth Federation Forces around the colony, Cardeas, in his final moments, gives Banagher the key to the Box, a mobile suit dubbed "The Unicorn Gundam." -- -- Packed with explosive action and rising tension, Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn RE:0096 follows Banagher as his conviction is tested and the destiny that has laid dormant for more than a century is finally realized. -- -- 25,583 7.58
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Monster Musume no Oishasan -- -- Arvo Animation -- 12 eps -- Light novel -- Comedy Romance Ecchi Fantasy -- Monster Musume no Oishasan Monster Musume no Oishasan -- After years of conflict, humans and monsters have settled their differences and are now at peace. This post-war era led to the foundation of Lindworm—a town which has since become the focal point of racial harmony. -- -- As a human doctor specializing in monster biology, Glenn Litbeit runs a small clinic alongside his partner, Saphentite Neikes, who is a half-snake monster known as a lamia. He uses his knowledge to tend to any monsters who seek his aid. Whatever affliction, concern, or injury it may be, he will always be there, ready to help. -- -- 126,010 6.50
Munou na Nana -- -- Bridge -- 13 eps -- Manga -- Psychological Shounen Super Power Supernatural Thriller -- Munou na Nana Munou na Nana -- Fifty years ago, horrific creatures dubbed as the "enemies of humanity" suddenly appeared around the world. To combat these threats, teenagers gifted with supernatural abilities called "Talents"—such as pyrokinesis and time travel—hone their powers at an academy on a secluded island. -- -- Nanao Nakajima, however, is quite different from the others on the island: he has no Talent. With many "Talented" teenagers around him, Nanao is often a target for bullying, but even so, he still strives to complete his training. Soon after, two transfer students, the mysterious Kyouya Onodera and the mind-reading Nana Hiiragi, join the class. But just as everyone starts blending as comrades-in-arms, mysterious disappearances begin to threaten the class's entire foundation. -- -- 185,964 7.28
Munou na Nana -- -- Bridge -- 13 eps -- Manga -- Psychological Shounen Super Power Supernatural Thriller -- Munou na Nana Munou na Nana -- Fifty years ago, horrific creatures dubbed as the "enemies of humanity" suddenly appeared around the world. To combat these threats, teenagers gifted with supernatural abilities called "Talents"—such as pyrokinesis and time travel—hone their powers at an academy on a secluded island. -- -- Nanao Nakajima, however, is quite different from the others on the island: he has no Talent. With many "Talented" teenagers around him, Nanao is often a target for bullying, but even so, he still strives to complete his training. Soon after, two transfer students, the mysterious Kyouya Onodera and the mind-reading Nana Hiiragi, join the class. But just as everyone starts blending as comrades-in-arms, mysterious disappearances begin to threaten the class's entire foundation. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 185,964 7.28
Owarimonogatari 2nd Season -- -- Shaft -- 7 eps -- Light novel -- Mystery Comedy Supernatural Vampire -- Owarimonogatari 2nd Season Owarimonogatari 2nd Season -- Following an encounter with oddity specialist Izuko Gaen, third-year high school student Koyomi Araragi wakes up in a strange, deserted void only to be greeted by a joyfully familiar face in an alarmingly unfamiliar place. -- -- Araragi, with the help of his girlfriend Hitagi Senjougahara, maneuvers through the webs of his past and the perplexities of the present in search of answers. However, fate once again delivers him to the eccentric transfer student Ougi Oshino, who brings forth an unexpected proposal that may unearth the very foundation to which he is anchored. As Araragi peels back the layers of mystery surrounding an apparition, he discovers a truth not meant to be revealed. -- -- 286,343 8.92
Owarimonogatari 2nd Season -- -- Shaft -- 7 eps -- Light novel -- Mystery Comedy Supernatural Vampire -- Owarimonogatari 2nd Season Owarimonogatari 2nd Season -- Following an encounter with oddity specialist Izuko Gaen, third-year high school student Koyomi Araragi wakes up in a strange, deserted void only to be greeted by a joyfully familiar face in an alarmingly unfamiliar place. -- -- Araragi, with the help of his girlfriend Hitagi Senjougahara, maneuvers through the webs of his past and the perplexities of the present in search of answers. However, fate once again delivers him to the eccentric transfer student Ougi Oshino, who brings forth an unexpected proposal that may unearth the very foundation to which he is anchored. As Araragi peels back the layers of mystery surrounding an apparition, he discovers a truth not meant to be revealed. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Aniplex of America -- 286,343 8.92
Psycho-Pass 2 -- -- Tatsunoko Production -- 11 eps -- Original -- Action Sci-Fi Police Psychological -- Psycho-Pass 2 Psycho-Pass 2 -- A year and a half after the events of the original sci-fi psychological thriller, Akane Tsunemori continues her work as an inspector—enforcing the Sibyl System's judgments. Joining her are new enforcers and junior inspector Mika Shimotsuki, a young woman blindly and inflexibly loyal to Sibyl. As Akane ponders both the nature of her job and the legitimacy of Sibyl's verdicts, a disturbing new menace emerges. -- -- A mysterious figure has discovered a way to control the Crime Coefficient—a number compiled from mental scans that allows Sibyl to gauge psychological health and identify potential criminals. Through these means, he is able to murder an enforcer, leaving behind a cryptic clue: "WC?" scrawled in blood on a wall. -- -- Akane and the rest of Division 1 soon find themselves playing a deadly game against their new foe, coming face-to-face with a conspiracy threatening not only the authority of the Sibyl System, but the very foundation of Akane's own convictions. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 524,843 7.42
Shachou, Battle no Jikan Desu! -- -- C2C -- 12 eps -- Game -- Action Adventure Fantasy -- Shachou, Battle no Jikan Desu! Shachou, Battle no Jikan Desu! -- Long ago, a goddess descended from Heaven and blessed the desolate land of Gatepia. As a result, gigantic gates appeared, leading to dungeons abundant in "kirakuri," crystals containing the energy needed for the foundation of the world. This led to the formation of various companies of adventurers who would harvest kirakuri from the dungeons. -- -- Following his father's disappearance inside one of the biggest gates in Gatepia, Minato is urged by his childhood friend Yutoria to become the president of his father's treasure-hunting company—the Kibou Company. He reluctantly agrees and meets with the other employees: the priest Makoto, the soldier Akari, and the accountant Guide. -- -- Thus, Makoto begins his tenure as president. As he and his comrades strive to fulfill various missions and other assorted tasks in order to keep their small company alive, they will uncover the mystery behind their former leader's sudden departure. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 28,167 5.86
Shokugeki no Souma: San no Sara -- -- J.C.Staff -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Ecchi School Shounen -- Shokugeki no Souma: San no Sara Shokugeki no Souma: San no Sara -- The Moon Festival is Tootsuki Academy's annual gourmet gala, where students compete against each other to earn the most profit through selling their cuisine of choice. But for Souma Yukihira, it is also his first opportunity to challenge the Elite Ten, the supreme council that rules over the academy. -- -- However, this is only the beginning of Souma's war against the Elite Ten; a nefarious plot is underway that will provide Souma with the challenge he desires but will also shake the very foundations of Tootsuki Academy itself. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- 700,825 8.11
Sidonia no Kishi: Ai Tsumugu Hoshi -- -- Polygon Pictures -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Action Sci-Fi Space Mecha Seinen -- Sidonia no Kishi: Ai Tsumugu Hoshi Sidonia no Kishi: Ai Tsumugu Hoshi -- After the Earth was destroyed by mysterious alien lifeforms known as the Gauna, surviving remnants of the human race escaped to space in the enormous generation ship Sidonia. Having drifted through space for millennia, the Sidonia found itself once more under attack from Gauna for the first time in a century. -- -- Once again facing the threat of extinction, a temporary victory against the Gauna was eked out thanks to the human-Gauna hybrid Tsumugi Shiraui and ace Guardian mech pilot Nagate Tanikaze. -- -- 10 years later... The people of Sidonia enjoy a brief respite. Peaceful days pass, during which Tsumugi begins to realize her feelings for Nagate, who is now celebrated as a hero of Sidonia. However, as Captain Kobayashi has always known, as long as the Gauna remain, peace cannot last. -- -- The decision is made: a final battle, upon which rests the fate of humanity's last survivors. As the end approaches, will the crew be able to protect those they love? -- -- (Source: Polygon Pictures) -- Movie - May 14, 2021 -- 17,557 N/A -- -- Tytania -- -- Artland -- 26 eps -- Light novel -- Adventure Military Psychological Romance Sci-Fi Space -- Tytania Tytania -- One Man vs. an Empire! Through fear and conquest, the Empire of Valdana holds the future of most of human space within its iron hands, and for generations, those hands have belonged to the Landless Lords of the ruling Tytania dynasty. -- -- But now the foundation of the empire is crumbling, pockets of rebellion are forming and when a mission sent to punish the city-state of Euriya is shockingly defeated, the man responsible becomes the target of a galaxy-wide manhunt! -- -- For Fan Hyurlick, architect of Tytania's first defeat, glory becomes desperation as his own side betrays him. Now Fan must not only save his own life, but somehow turn the tables on opponents who have whole worlds to command! -- -- (Source: Sentai Filmworks) -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- TV - Oct 9, 2008 -- 17,546 6.83
Steamboy -- -- Studio 4°C, Sunrise -- 1 ep -- Original -- Action Military Sci-Fi Adventure Historical Drama -- Steamboy Steamboy -- Ray is a young wunderkind inventor living in Victorian England. His life is turned upside down when he receives a special package hailing from the United States, sent by his grandfather, Lloyd Steam. The package contains a device called a Steam Ball, a device so powerful that it can drive any machine that requires steam with a nearly limitless amount of energy. -- -- Ray is instructed to not let the Steam Ball fall into the wrong hands, which include the mighty O'Hara Foundation, who desperately want to bring the Steam Ball back into their control so they can achieve their less than noble goals. -- -- He will need to use every bit of his brilliance in order to dodge the countless goons that are sent to snatch the device from him. It will be a battle between good and evil, a battle for redemption, a battle for the future! -- -- Licensor: -- Sony Pictures Entertainment -- Movie - Jul 17, 2004 -- 67,126 7.35
Steamboy -- -- Studio 4°C, Sunrise -- 1 ep -- Original -- Action Military Sci-Fi Adventure Historical Drama -- Steamboy Steamboy -- Ray is a young wunderkind inventor living in Victorian England. His life is turned upside down when he receives a special package hailing from the United States, sent by his grandfather, Lloyd Steam. The package contains a device called a Steam Ball, a device so powerful that it can drive any machine that requires steam with a nearly limitless amount of energy. -- -- Ray is instructed to not let the Steam Ball fall into the wrong hands, which include the mighty O'Hara Foundation, who desperately want to bring the Steam Ball back into their control so they can achieve their less than noble goals. -- -- He will need to use every bit of his brilliance in order to dodge the countless goons that are sent to snatch the device from him. It will be a battle between good and evil, a battle for redemption, a battle for the future! -- Movie - Jul 17, 2004 -- 67,126 7.35
Submarine 707R -- -- Production Reed -- 2 eps -- Manga -- Action Adventure Military Sci-Fi -- Submarine 707R Submarine 707R -- In order to keep ocean peace, PKN was organized. It consisted of the state-of-the-art battle ships of various countries. However, they were raided during the foundation ceremony by the unidentified organization, USR, which plotted to conquer the world. They couldn’t be much for the submarine UX which was operated by Admiral Red of USR. But an old Japanese submarine, the 707 saved them, which was operated Captain Hayami at the risk of his life. -- -- One year later, succeeding to the 707, which had been ruined during the former fight, newly developed submarine, the 707 II, went for a sail. Among the crews, there were boys, such as Kenji, Goro, and Senta, who had been trainees. PKN formed a fleet led by the Great Guardian, which was the latest battle ship of the United States. However, the attacks of Submarine U were very server, and the fleet was defeated. Then, the 707 arrived. As soon as Red noticed the 707, he was glad to reunion with his rival and began to fight. -- -- Escaping from the submarine attack, they hid the 707 in the valley. But Red tried to destroy the valley in order to put the 707 into the torrents of mud. The 707 nearly escaped from it and got in the crater. However it was the pure water layer where the submarine couldn’t float up. At the moment, numerous torpedoes launched to the 707. -- -- (Source: AnimeNfo) -- -- Licensor: -- Geneon Entertainment USA -- OVA - Sep 26, 2003 -- 2,539 6.27
Tytania -- -- Artland -- 26 eps -- Light novel -- Adventure Military Psychological Romance Sci-Fi Space -- Tytania Tytania -- One Man vs. an Empire! Through fear and conquest, the Empire of Valdana holds the future of most of human space within its iron hands, and for generations, those hands have belonged to the Landless Lords of the ruling Tytania dynasty. -- -- But now the foundation of the empire is crumbling, pockets of rebellion are forming and when a mission sent to punish the city-state of Euriya is shockingly defeated, the man responsible becomes the target of a galaxy-wide manhunt! -- -- For Fan Hyurlick, architect of Tytania's first defeat, glory becomes desperation as his own side betrays him. Now Fan must not only save his own life, but somehow turn the tables on opponents who have whole worlds to command! -- -- (Source: Sentai Filmworks) -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- TV - Oct 9, 2008 -- 17,546 6.83
Uchuu no Stellvia -- -- Xebec -- 26 eps -- Original -- Action Mecha Romance Sci-Fi Space -- Uchuu no Stellvia Uchuu no Stellvia -- The year is 2356 A.D. - 189 years after a distant supernova caused a global catastrophe that wiped out 99% of the world population. To keep track on all space activities, mankind has built colossal space stations called "foundations" all over the Solar System. After passing the Space Academy entrance exams, Shima Katase embarks to the Earth-based foundation Stellvia to fulfill her dream of seeing the galaxy and to prevent another interstellar catastrophe from destroying Earth. -- -- (Source: ANN) -- -- Licensor: -- Discotek Media, Geneon Entertainment USA -- 21,244 7.38
Yami Shibai 2 -- -- ILCA -- 13 eps -- Original -- Dementia Horror Supernatural -- Yami Shibai 2 Yami Shibai 2 -- For the second time, the masked storyteller returns to tell children tales and legends of horror and woe, such as the tale of a ventriloquist's dummy, a locker that grants wishes, a capsule toy machine that returns lost possessions, and a strange food called Ominie-san. -- -- Building on the foundation that was laid by the first, Yami Shibai 2 is a collection of Japanese scary stories of the unknown and the occult that are truly terrifying, narrated in a style of art that mimics kamishibai storytelling. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- TV - Jul 7, 2014 -- 38,170 6.50
Yami Shibai 2 -- -- ILCA -- 13 eps -- Original -- Dementia Horror Supernatural -- Yami Shibai 2 Yami Shibai 2 -- For the second time, the masked storyteller returns to tell children tales and legends of horror and woe, such as the tale of a ventriloquist's dummy, a locker that grants wishes, a capsule toy machine that returns lost possessions, and a strange food called Ominie-san. -- -- Building on the foundation that was laid by the first, Yami Shibai 2 is a collection of Japanese scary stories of the unknown and the occult that are truly terrifying, narrated in a style of art that mimics kamishibai storytelling. -- -- TV - Jul 7, 2014 -- 38,170 6.50
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