Rainer Maria Rilke Short Quotes

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Yes, everything that is truly seen must become a poem.

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Not since Moses has anyone seen a mountain so greatly.

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Death is the side of life which is turned away from us.

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A work of art is good if it has grown out of necessity.

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We're never single-minded, unperplexed, like migratory birds.

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I want to love the things as no one has thought to love them.

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Who has not sat nervously before the stage curtain of his heart?

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To have a childhood means to live a thousand lives before the one.

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My blood is alive with many voices telling me I am made of longing.

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I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world.

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One moment your life is a stone in you, and the next moment a star!

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Do not be bewildered by the surfaces: in the depths all becomes law.

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We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.

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Nearly everything that matters is a challenge, and everything matters.

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For there is no place that does not see you. You must change your life.

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

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Perhaps creating something is nothing but an act of profound remembrance.

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The knowledge of impermanence that haunts our days is their very fragrance.

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What is needed is, in the end, simply this: solitude, great inner solitude.

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All this hurrying soon will be over. Only when we tarry do we touch the holy.

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Rose, oh pure contradiction, desire,
To be no one's sleep under so many
Lids.

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Every happiness is the child of a separation it did not think it could survive.

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Across the moment, aeons speak with aeons. More than we experienced has gone by.

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

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Joy is a marvelous increasing of what exists, a pure addition out of nothingness.

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When you go to bed, don't leave bread or milk on the table: it attracts the dead.

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I have patience for centuries in me and will live as though my time were very big.

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He who understands one thing understands everything, for the same laws are in all.

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A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude.

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I live not in dreams but in contemplation of a reality that is perhaps the future.

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