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1. "Rose, oh pure contradiction, joyof being No-one's sleep under so manylids." ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
2. "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
3. "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
4. "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
5. "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
6. "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
7. "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
8. "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
9. "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
10. "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
11. "If, when you wake up in the morning, you can think of nothing but writing . . . then you are a writer." ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
12. "Seulement la terre qui obéit,sait bien qu'elle tourne en rond,tandis que nous vers l'infininous précipitons.Translation:But the obedient Earth well knowsthat she moves round and round,whereas we hurtle downtoward infinity." ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
13. "This is the creature there has never been.They never knew it, and yet, none the less,they loved the way it moved, its suppleness,its neck, its very gaze, mild and serene.Not there, because they loved it, it behavedas though it were. They always left some space.And in that clear unpeopled space they savedit lightly reared its head, with scarce a traceof not being there. They fed it, not with corn,but only with the possibilityof being. And that was able to confersuch strength, its brow put forth a horn. One horn.Whitely it stole up to a maid - to bewithin the silver mirror and in her." ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
14. "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. 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. But once the realization is accepted that even between the closest people infinite distances exist, a marvelous living side-by-side can grow up for them, if they succeed in loving the expanse between them, which gives them the possibility of always seeing each other as a whole and before an immense sky." ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
15. "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
16. "And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been" ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
17. "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
18. "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
19. "Aber nun, da so vieles anders wird, ist es nicht an uns, uns zu verändern? Könnten wir nicht versuchen, uns ein wenig zu entwickeln, und unseren Anteil Arbeit in der Liebe langsam auf uns nehmen nach und nach? Man hat uns alle ihre Mühsal erspart, und so ist sie uns unter die Zerstreuungen geglitten, wie in eines Kindes Spiellade manchmal ein Stück echter Spitze fällt und freut und nicht mehr freut und endlich daliegt unter Zerbrochenem und Auseinandergenommenem, schlechter als alles. Wir sind verdorben vom leichten Genuß wie alle Dilettanten und stehen im Geruch der Meisterschaft. Wie aber, wenn wir unsere Erfolge verachteten, wie, wenn wir ganz von vorne begännen die Arbeit der Liebe zu lernen, die immer für uns getan worden ist? Wie, wenn wir hingingen und Anfänger würden, nun, da sich vieles verändert." ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
20. "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
21. "How much there is to suffer. When was time enoughto pay attention to our lighter emotions?And still I recognize, better than most otherswho will be resurrected, what blessedness is." ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
22. "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
23. "All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood." ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
24. "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
25. "If we surrendered to earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees." ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
26. "Across the moment, aeons speak with aeons.More than we experienced has gone by." ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
27. "Perhaps all dragons in our lives are really princesses just waiting to see us just once being beautiful and courageous." ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
28. "Now we wake up with our memoryand fix our gazes on that which was;whispering sweetness, which once coursed through us,sits silently beside us with loosened hair" ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
29. "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
30. "You, God, who live next door--If at times, through the long night, I trouble youwith 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 oneto get you a glass of water.I wait listening, always. Just give me a sign!I'm right here...Sen komsu tanri,Uzun geceler bazen,Kapina vura vura uyandiriyorsam seniSolumani seyrek duydugumdandir...Bilirim, yalnizsin odanda.Sana birsey gerekse kimse yok,Bir yudum su versin aradiginda.Hep dinlerim, yeter ki bir ses edin,Öyle yakinim sana..." ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
31. "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
32. "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
33. "Our age has built itself vast reservoirs of power / formless as the straining energy that it wrests from the earth." ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
34. "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
35. "For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terrorwhich 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
36. "Tutto è portare a termine e poi generare. Lasciar compiersi ogni impressione e ogni germe d'un sentimento dentro di sé, nel buio, nell'indicibile, nell'inconscio irraggiungibile alla propria ragione, e attendere con profonda umiltà e pazienza l'ora del parto d'una nuova chiarezza: questo solo si chiama vivere da artista: nel comprender come nel creare.Qui non si misura il tempo, qui non vale alcun termine e dieci anni son nulla. Essere artisti vuol dire: non calcolare e contare; maturare come l'albero, che non incalza i suoi succhi e sta sereno nelle tempeste di primavera senz'apprensione che l'estate non possa venire. Ché l'estate viene. Ma viene solo ai pazienti, che attendono e stanno come se l'eternità giacesse avanti a loro, tanto sono tranquilli e vasti e sgombri d'ogni ansia. Io l'imparo ogni giorno, l'imparo tra i dolori, cui sono riconoscente: pazienza è tutto!" ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
37. "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
38. "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
39. "But this is what ... people are so often and disastrously wrong in doing: 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 would like to call their happiness, and their futures?And so each of them loses himself to the other for the sake of the other person, and loses the other. And loses the vast possibilities ... in exchange for an unfruitful confusion, out of which nothing more can come, nothing but a bit of disgust, disappointment and poverty." ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
40. "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
41. "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
42. "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 flameand 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
43. "If there were a place that we didn't know of, and there,on some unsayable carpet, lovers displayedwhat they never could bring to mastery here – the boldexploits of their high-flying hearts,their towers of pleasure, their laddersthat have long since been standing where there was no ground, leaningjust on each other, trembling, - and could master all this,before the surrounding spectators, the innumerable soundless dead: Would these, then, throw down their final, forever saved-up,forever hidden, unknown to us, eternally validcoins of happiness before the at lastgenuinely smiling pair on the gratified carpet?" ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
44. "Before Summer RainSuddenly, from all the green around you,something-you don't know what-has disappeared;you feel it creeping closer to the window,in total silence. From the nearby woodyou hear the urgent whistling of a plover,reminding you of someone's Saint Jerome:so much solitude and passion comefrom that one voice, whose fierce request the downpourwill grant. The walls, with their ancient portraits, glideaway from us, cautiously, as thoughthey weren't supposed to hear what we are saying.And reflected on the faded tapestries now;the chill, uncertain sunlight of those longchildhood hours when you were so afraid" ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
45. "So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp." ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
46. "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
47. "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
48. "And these thingsthat 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
49. "She who reconciles the ill-matched threadsOf her life, and weaves them gratefullyInto a single cloth – It's she who drives the loudmouths from the hallAnd clears it for a different celebration." ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
50. "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
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