Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes — Page 23

Poet, Novelist

Lonely

“The leaves are falling, falling as if from far up,as if orchards were dying high in space.Each leaf falls as if it were motioning "no."And tonight the heavy earth is fallingaway from all other stars in the loneliness.We're all falling. This hand here is falling.And look at the other one. It's in them all.And yet there is Someone, whose handsinfinitely calm, holding up all this falling.”

Fall Stars Loneliness

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Rainer Maria Rilke

Poet, Novelist

Philosophical

“Fate loves to invent patterns and designs. Its difficulty lies in complexity. But life itself is difficult because of its simplicity. It has only a few things of a grandeur not fit for us.”

Life Lying Fate

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Philosophical

“What we call fate does not come into us from the outside, but emerges from us.”

Doe Fate

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Angry

“Irony: Don't let yourself be controlled by it, especially during uncreative moments.”

Moments Irony

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Hopeful

“Do continue to believe that with your feeling and with your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate in yourself this belief, the more will reality and world go forth from it.”

Believe Reality Confidence

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Philosophical

“What else can I tell you? It seems to me that everything has its proper emphasis; and finally I want to add just one more bit of advice: to keep growing, silently and earnestly, through your whole development; you couldn't disturb it any more violently than by looking outside and waiting for outside answers to questions that only your innermost feeling, in your quietest hour, can perhaps answer.”

Feelings Waiting Advice

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Sad

“All professions are... filled with demands.”

Demand Profession

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Love

“I implore those who love me to love my solitude.”

Solitude

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Philosophical

“Whoever you are: in the evening step out of your room, where you know everything; yours is the last house before the far-off: whoever you are. With your eyes, which in their weariness barely free themselves from the worn-out threshold, you lift very slowly one black tree and place it against the sky: slender, alone. And you have made the world. And it is huge and like a word which grows ripe in silence. And as your will seizes on its meaning, tenderly your eyes let it go.”

Eye Silence Sky

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Determined

“Life is cut to allow for growth ... one may vigorously put on weight before one fills it out entirely.”

Cutting Growth Weight

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Melancholic

“At no other time (than autumn) does the earth let itself be inhaled in one smell, the ripe earth; in a smell that is in no way inferior to the smell of the sea, bitter where it borders on taste, and more honeysweet where you feel it touching the first sounds. Containing depth within itself, darkness, something of the grave almost.”

Sea Smell Autumn

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Love

“Young people, who are beginners in everything, cannot yet know love: they have to learn it.”

People Young Beginners

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