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Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes

Rainer Maria Rilke quotes

Deutsch Poet December 4, 1875 – December 29, 1926

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Extinguish my sight, and I can still see you; plug up my ears, and I can still hear; even without feet I can walk toward you, and without mouth I can still implore. Break off my arms, and I will hold youwith my heart as if it were a hand; strangle my heart, and my brain will still throb; and should you set fire to my brain, I still can carry you with my blood. Rainer Maria Rilke
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
Rainer Maria Rilke quote: "Forest! They seek your trees to sleep among, With their long..."
Forest! They seek your trees to sleep among, With their long sentences hung. Forest! Rainer Maria Rilke
...Often a starwas waiting for you to notice it. A wave rolled toward youout of the distant path, or as you walkedunder an open window, a violinyielded itself to your hearing. All this was mission. Rainer Maria Rilke
Rainer Maria Rilke quote: "Perhaps then, some day far in the future, you will gradually,..."
Perhaps then, some day far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer. Rainer Maria Rilke
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
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
Rainer Maria Rilke quote: "O shooting starthat fell into my eyes and through my body-:not..."
O shooting starthat fell into my eyes and through my body-:not to forget you. To endure. Rainer Maria Rilke
Rainer Maria Rilke quote: "Art too is just a way of living."
Art too is just a way of living. Rainer Maria Rilke
He does not always remain bent over thepages; he often leans back and closeshis eyes over a line he has been readingagain, and its meaning spreads throughhis blood. Rainer Maria Rilke
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 winterthat only by wintering through it will your heart survive. Rainer Maria Rilke
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
...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
LOSING: Losing too is still ours; and even forgettingstill has a shape in the kingdom of transformation. When something's let go of, it circles; and though we arerarely the centerof the circle, it draws around us its unbroken, marvelouscurve. Rainer Maria Rilke
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

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