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Rainer Maria Rilke

  • Rainer Maria Rilke

    René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke (4 December 1875 – 29 December 1926) — better known as Rainer Maria Rilke () — was a Bohemian-Austrian poet and novelist, "widely recognized as one of the most lyrically intense German-language poets", writing in both verse and highly lyrical prose.

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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.

Tags: Peace, Mind, True
Rainer Maria Rilke

No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.

Tags: Teacher, Young, Whole
Rainer Maria Rilke

The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.

Tags: Deepest, Feminine, Creator
Rainer Maria Rilke

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.

Tags: Time, Changes, Shifts
Rainer Maria Rilke

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.

Tags: Peace, Find, Cannot
Rainer Maria Rilke

Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.

Tags: Morning, Feeling, Special
Rainer Maria Rilke

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.

Tags: Time, Happen, Anybody
Rainer Maria Rilke

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.

Tags: Best, Girl, Sleep
Rainer Maria Rilke

More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.

Tags: Good, Deal, Circus
Rainer Maria Rilke

Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.

Tags: Heart, Everything, Night
Rainer Maria Rilke

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