Rainer Maria Rilke

Rainer Maria Rilke

"Nothing in the world can one imagine beforehand not the least thing. Everything is made up of so many unique particulars that cannot be foreseen."
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"Nothing in the world can one imagine beforehand not the least thing. Everything is made up of so many unique particulars that cannot be foreseen."
Rainer Maria Rilke
"Success which is something so simple in the end is made up of thousands of things we never fully know what."
Rainer Maria Rilke
"One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one."
Rainer Maria Rilke
"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
"Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain?"
Rainer Maria Rilke
"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
"Everyone once once only. Just once and no more. And we also once. Never again."
Rainer Maria Rilke
"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
"A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude. 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
"Love consists in this that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other."
Rainer Maria Rilke
"This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love the more they give the more they possess."
Rainer Maria Rilke
"For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks the ultimate the last test and proof the work for which all other work is but preparation."
Rainer Maria Rilke
"Nothing in this world can one imagine beforehand not the least thing. Everything is made up of so many unique particulars that cannot be foreseen."
Rainer Maria Rilke
"The gnarled fidelity of an old habit."
Rainer Maria Rilke
"Do continue to believe that with your feeling and your work you are taking part in the greatest the more strongly you cultivate in yourself this belief the more will reality and the world go forth from it."
Rainer Maria Rilke
"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 into all things."
Rainer Maria Rilke
"Fame is the sum of the misunderstanding that gathers about a new name."
Rainer Maria Rilke
"Were it possible for us to see further than our knowledge reaches perhaps we would endure our sadnesses with greater confidence than our joys. For they are moments when something new has entered into us something unknown."
Rainer Maria Rilke
"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
"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."
Rainer Maria Rilke
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