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Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes

Total quotes: 52
“It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke, The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke(English and German Edition)
Tagged: Earth, Child, Poems, heart, Spring
“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
Tagged: Letting Go, Love, Relationships
“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, Letters To a Young Poet
Tagged: People, social interaction, Relationships, Human Connection, human bond, Friendship, Solitude
“Behind my face stretches a world, no more lived in, perhaps, than the moon.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke, A Year with Rilke
Tagged: Poetry, World, Moon
“Spring has come round again, and the Earth is like a child who is brimming with poems.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke, Selected Poems
Tagged: Spring, Seasons, Why Spring Is So Beautiful
“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, Letters To a Young Poet
Tagged: Life, Struggle, Experience, Living, Inspirational
“Most experiences are unsayable; they come to fullness in a realm that words do not inhabit.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke, A Year with Rilke: Daily Readings from the Best of Rainer Maria Rilke
Tagged: Happiness, Memories, Experiences
“True singing is a different breath, about nothing. A gust inside the god. A wind.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke, The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
Tagged: Music, Perfect Music, Singing
“Poems amount to so little when you write them too early in your life. You ought to wait and gather sense and sweetness for a whole lifetime, and a long one if possible, and then, at the very end, you might perhaps be able to write ten good lines.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke, The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
Tagged: Poetry, Writing Poetry, My Philosophy, Understanding Inspiration, Writing
“Whatever happens, your life will find its own path from that point on...”
— Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet(Penguin Classics)
Tagged: Life, Living Fully, Living Boldly, living confidently, Self-Trust, Self Confidence, trust the journey, Trust In God
“With regard to any such disquisition, review or introduction, trust yourself and your instincts; even if you go wrong in your judgement, the natural growth of your inner life will gradually, over time, lead you to other insights.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet(Penguin Classics)
Tagged: Self-Trust, Self Confidence, Self-Reliance, Decision-Making, self-intuition, Instincts, judgment in things, Writing, Criticism
“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
Tagged: How To Think, The Art of Awareness, Love, Philosophy
“There is only one solitude, and that is vast and not easy to bear and almost everyone has moments when they would happily exchange it for some form of company...”
— Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet(Penguin Classics)
Tagged: Solitude, solitary, Loneliness, Life
“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, Letters to a Young Poet(Penguin Classics)
Tagged: Writing, Writing Advice, Poetry, Poetry Advice, finding inspirations, Creativity, Life
“Yes, you’ve entered my bloodstream, the room, the whole springtime is filled with you...”
— Rainer Maria Rilke, "The Second Elegy", Duino Elegies
Tagged: Love
“Quick though the earth itself churns, changing like cloud formations, each fulfilled thing returns to ancient foundations.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke, The Sonnets to Orpheus
Tagged: It All Comes Back, Core Patterns of the World, Routines of World History, Old Is New
“But your solitude, even in the midst of quite foreign circumstances, will be a hold and a home for you, and leading from it you will find all the paths you need.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet(Penguin Classics)
Tagged: Solitude, solitary, Loneliness, solitude is independence, solitary confinement, Inspirational, Empowering
“Don't you see how everything that happens is always a beginning again, and could be it not be His beginning, given that beginnings are in themselves always so beautiful?”
— Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet(Penguin Classics)
Tagged: Beginnings, God, God Cares, God Is Fighting For You, Life, living and surviving
“...admit to yourself whether you would die if it should be denied you to write. This above all: ask yourself in your night's quietest hour: must I write?”
— Rainer Maria Rilke, Letter to a Young Poet
Tagged: Writing, Writing Advice, Writing as an Expression, Writing and Expression, Writing As A Career
“...progress must come from deep within and cannot be forced or accelerated.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet(Penguin Classics)
Tagged: Progress, Improvement, Development, Learning, Experience, Life, Inspirational
“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, Letters to a Young Poet(Penguin Classics)
Tagged: Self-Love, self awareness, Self Appreciation, Self Care, Self Confidence, Life, Inspirational, Motivational
“...perhaps we should then bear our sadness with greater assurance than our joys. For they are the moments when something new enters into us, something unknown to us...”
— Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet(Penguin Classics)
Tagged: Sadness, sadness and joy, sadness as a new beginning, sadness as transitional, Living Boldly, Life
“For he who creates must be a world of his own and everything within himself and in the natural world that he has elected to follow.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet(Penguin Classics)
Tagged: Writing, Writing Poetry, Poetry, Art, Art & Expression, Own World, Creativity, Creative Encouragement, Life
“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, Letters To a Young Poet
Tagged: Poetry, Letters to A Young Poet, Believe In A Love Beyond Yourself, You Are Worthy of Love, Love Won't Constrain You, Love Expands You, Quote of the Moment
“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, Letters To a Young Poet
Tagged: The Person You'll Become, Love, Philosophy
“For somewhere there is an ancient enmity between our daily life and the great work.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke, The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
Tagged: Average Everydayness, Banality, Enthusiasm, Fighting For The Ideal, Great Work
“Anxious, we keep longing for a foothold — we, at times too young for what is old and too old for what has never been.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke, The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
Tagged: Home Is Where, Young and Old
“Let everything happen to you,
Beauty and terror.
Just keep going.
No feeling is final.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
Tagged: The way forward, Quote of the Moment, Feelings, emotions, Feelings aren't facts
“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, Letters To a Young Poet
Tagged: Love, Philosophy, The Person You'll Become
“Between the hammers our hearts endure, just as the tongue does between the teeth and, despite that, still is able to praise.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters To a Young Poet
Tagged: heart, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“In the deepest and most important things, we are unutterably alone, and for one person to be able to advise, let alone help another, a great deal must come about, a great deal must come right, a whole constellation of things must concur for it to be possible at all.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters To a Young Poet
Tagged: advise, Life, Human Beauty, You're Not Alone, Experience, Helping Others
“...writing is difficult...”
— Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet(Penguin Classics)
Tagged: Writing, Writing Advice, Writer Secrets, Being A Writer
“Breath, you poem beyond all seeing!”
— Rainer Maria Rilke, The Sonnets to Orpheus
Tagged: breathing, Ecological Poetry, What Can't Be Seen
“...no experience is too slight, and the merest occurrence unfolds like a fate, and fate itself is like a wonderful, vast fabric in which every thread is drawn by an infinitely tender hand and laid next to another, held in place and supported by hundred others.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet(Penguin Classics)
Tagged: Experience, Life Experience, Life, Fate, Knowledge, Motivational
“My blood is alive with many voices telling me I am made of longing.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke, Separations- Necessary Evils?
Tagged: Blood, alive, voice, Voices, Speak, tell, Longing, Want, urge
“...then ask yourself...whether you have really lost God?...and if you feel with horror that even now he is not present, at the moment when we are talking about him, what then gives you the right to miss him who never was, as if he had disappeared, and to search for him as if he were lost?”
— Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet(Penguin Classics)
Tagged: God, believing in God, worship God, finding your way to God
“For this is wrong, if anything is wrong: 
not to enlarge the freedom of a love 
with all the inner freedom one can summon. 
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, The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
Tagged: Love, Letting Go of Love, Tides of Love
“Your blood flowed darkly.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke, The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
Tagged: Blood
“Build the great arch of unimagined bridges.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke, The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
Tagged: Great Enthusiasm, Great Works, Soothing Language, Ambition, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“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, The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke (English and German Edition)
Tagged: How To Think, The Art of Awareness
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