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Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes

Rainer Maria Rilke quotes

Deutsch Poet December 4, 1875 – December 29, 1926

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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
Rainer Maria Rilke quote: "We are not allowed to linger, even with what is most intimate."
We are not allowed to linger, even with what is most intimate. Rainer Maria Rilke
but those tasks that have been entrusted to us are difficult; almost everything serious is difficult; and everything is serious. Rainer Maria Rilke
Rainer Maria Rilke quote: "Almost everything serious is difficult; and everything is..."
Almost everything serious is difficult; and everything is serious. Rainer Maria Rilke
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
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
Rainer Maria Rilke quote: "Truly to sing, that is a different breath."
Truly to sing, that is a different breath. Rainer Maria Rilke
Rainer Maria Rilke quote: "Our task is to take this earth so deeply and wholly into..."
Our task is to take this earth so deeply and wholly into ourselves that it will resurrect within our being. Rainer Maria Rilke
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
Rainer Maria Rilke quote: "Perhaps creating something is nothing but an act of profound..."
Perhaps creating something is nothing but an act of profound remembrance. Rainer Maria Rilke
Rainer Maria Rilke quote: "Live the questions now"
Live the questions now Rainer Maria Rilke
Rainer Maria Rilke quote: "Strangely, I heard a stranger say, I am with you."
Strangely, I heard a stranger say, I am with you. Rainer Maria Rilke
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
Rainer Maria Rilke quote: "Where something becomes extremely difficult and unbearable,..."
Where something becomes extremely difficult and unbearable, there we also stand already quite near its transformation. Rainer Maria Rilke
Rainer Maria Rilke quote: "It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not..."
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

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