Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes — Page 22

Poet, Novelist

Philosophical

“But because truly being here is so much; because everything here apparently needs us, this fleeting world, which in some strange way keeps calling to us. Us, the most fleeting of all.”

Needs Calling Fleeting World

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Rainer Maria Rilke

Poet, Novelist

Creative

“If you trust in Nature, in the small Things that hardly anyone sees and that can so suddenly become huge, immeasurable; if you have this love for what is humble and try very simply, as someone who serves, to win the confidence of what seems poor, then everything will become easier for you.”

Trying Winning Humble

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Angry

“What we do battle with is so small, what battles us is so large.”

Struggle Battle

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Lonely

“Strangely, I heard a stranger say, I am with you.”

Stranger Heard

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Confident

“If, when you wake up in the morning, you can think of nothing but writing . . . then you are a writer.”

Thinking Writing Morning

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Lonely

“We are unutterably alone essentially, especially in the things most intimate and most important.”

Important Intimate

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Creative

“Every intensification is good, if it is in your entire blood, if it isn't intoxication or muddiness, but joy which you can see into, clear to the bottom.”

Joy Blood Intoxication

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Grateful

“In this there is no measuring with time, a year doesn’t matter, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means: not numbering and counting, but ripening like a tree, which doesn’t force its sap, and stands confidently in the storms of spring, not afraid that afterward summer may not come. It does come. But it comes only to those who are patient, who are there as if eternity lay before them, so unconcernedly silent and vast. I learn it every day of my life, learn it with pain I am grateful for: patience is everything!”

Pain Spring Summer

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Melancholic

“the longer I live, the more necessary it seems to me to endure, to copy the whole dictation of existence to the end, for it might be that only the last sentence contains that small, perhaps inconspicuous word through which all laboriously learned and not understood orients itself toward glorious sense.”

Might Lasts Ends

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Calm

“I am like a child who awakes At the light, so safe and secureFree from night's fears when dawn breaks, In Thee I am ever secure.”

Children Night God

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Lonely

“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.”

Long Gestures Fleeting

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Philosophical

“We must accept our reality as vastly as we possibly can; everything, even the unprecedented, must be possible within it.”

Reality Accepting Unprecedented

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