Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes

487 quotes · Poet, Novelist

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Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes

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Rainer Maria Rilke

Poet, Novelist

Melancholic

“And you suddenly know: It was here! You pull yourself together, and there stands an irrevocable year of anguish and vision and prayer.”

Years Prayer Vision

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Rainer Maria Rilke

Poet, Novelist

Grieving

“Und dasTotsein ist mu« hsam und voller Nachholn, dass man allm a« hlich ein wenig Ewigkeit spu« rt. And being dead is hard work and full of retrieval before one can gradually feel a trace of eternity.”

Men Hard Work Eternity

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Creative

“... be indulgent toward those who ... are afraid of the aloneness that you trust.”

Solitude

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Courageous

“One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.”

Action Fear

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Love

“Comfort me from wherever you are–alone, we are quickly worn out; if I place my head on the road, let it seem softened by you. Could it be that even from afar we offer each other a gentle breath?”

Comfort Worn Afar

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Determined

“Your doubt can become a good quality if you train it. It must become knowing, it must become criticism.”

Knowing Doubt Criticism

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Love

“Society has been able to create refuges of every sort, for since it preferred to take love-life as an amusement, it also had to give it an easy form, cheap, safe, and sure, as public amusements are.”

Giving Love Life Amusement

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Determined

“Those tasks that have been entrusted to us are difficult; almost everything serious is difficult; and everything is serious.”

Difficult Serious Tasks

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Creative

“But you, divine poet, you sang on till the end as the swarm of rejected maenads attacked you, shrieking, you overpowered their noise with harmony, and from pure destruction arose your transfigured song.”

Song Noise Maenads

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Creative

“The creator must be a world for himself and must find everything in himself and in Nature, to whom his whole life is devoted.”

World Life Is Obsession

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Creative

“One of the most difficult tests for the creator: he must always remain unconscious, unaware of his best virtues, if he doesn't want to rob them of their candor and innocence.”

Want Tests Innocence

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Motivated

“He was a worker whose only desire was to penetrate with all his forces into the humble and difficult significance of his tools. Therein lay a certain renunciation of Life, but in just this renunciation lay his triumph, for Life entered into his work.”

Desire Humble Triumph

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