Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes — Page 20

Poet, Novelist

Philosophical

“Sometime we will have to stop overevaluating the word. We shall learn to realize that it is only one of the many bridges that connect the island of our soul with the great continent of common life. . . the broadest, perhaps, but in no way the most refined.”

Soul Bridges Islands

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Rainer Maria Rilke

Poet, Novelist

Spiritual

“Be-and yet know the great void where all things begin, the infinite source of your own most intense vibration, so that, this once, you may give it your perfect assent.”

Giving Perfect Joy

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Happy

“But there is much beauty here, because there is much beauty everywhere.”

Beauty Everywhere

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Philosophical

“Never believe fate is more than the condensation of childhood.”

Believe Fate

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Philosophical

“Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves...At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer.”

Heart Trying Finding Yourself

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Wise

“All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.”

Emotional Sides Lift You Up

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Determined

“What we fight with is so small, and when we win, it makes us small. What we want is to be defeated, decisively, by successively greater things”

Want Fighting Winning

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Philosophical

“Everything in the world of things and animals is still filled with happening, which you can take part in.”

World Animal Filled

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Sad

“If only it were possible for us to see farther than our knowledge reaches, and even a little beyond the outworks of our presentiment, perhaps we would bear our sadnesses with greater trust than we have in our joys.”

Littles Joy Sadness

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Love

“You, Beloved, who are all the gardens I have ever gazed at, longing. An open window in a country house - , and you almost stepped out, pensive, to meet me. Streets that I chanced upon, - you had just walked down them and vanished. And sometimes, in a shop, the mirrors were still dizzy with your presence and, startled, gave back my too-sudden image. Who knows? Perhaps the same bird echoed through both of us yesterday, separate, in the evening.”

Country Mirrors Garden

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Motivated

“. . . denn da ist keine Stelle, die dich nicht sieht. Du musst dein Leben andern. (... for there is no place that does not see you. You must change your life.)”

Life Doe Change

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Creative

“Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his reflective processes, and incomprehensibly to himself, all his progress should enter so swiftly into the work that he is unable to recognize them in the moment of transition. Alas, the artist who waits in ambush there, watching, detaining them, will find them transformed like the beautiful gold in the fairy tale which cannot remain gold because some small detail was not taken care of.”

Beautiful Taken Creativity

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