Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes

Rainer Maria Rilke (38)

Birth:	4th December, 1875
Death:	29th December, 1926
Nationality:	Austrian
Profession:	Novelist, Poet

About

René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke better known as Rainer Maria Rilke was a Bohemian-Austrian poet. He is considered one of the most significant poets in the German language. His haunting images focus on the difficulty of communion with the ineffable in an
age of disbelief, solitude, and profound anxiety: themes that tend to position him as a transitional figure between the traditional and the modernist poets.

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• There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Always, Right, Most, Difficult, Class

• Not numbering and counting, but ripening like a tree.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Poetry
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  I live my life in widening circles. That reach out across the world.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Topics in Inspirational, Life

  Tags in Reach, Widening

• If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Poet, Creator, Seems, Enough, Poor, Poverty, Blame

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

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Topics in Dream

  Tags in Poetry

• Every angel is terrifying.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Poetry

• I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Poetry

• The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Poetry

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

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Poetry

• How should we be able to forget those ancient myths that are at the beginning of all people, the myths about dragons that at the last moment turn into princesses; perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Topics in Attitude, Beauty, Love

  Tags in Myth, Self-Care, Courage
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  Let everything happen to you. Beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Topics in Beauty

  Tags in Happen, Feeling

• More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Bed, Marriage, Belong

• Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Perhaps, Knowing, Live, Day

• Surely all art is the result of one’s having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Topics in Experience

  Tags in Result, Danger

• No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Great, Artist, Known, Danger

• It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Solitude, Good, Reason, Something, Difficult

• For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Topics in Love, Work

  Tags in Proof, Preparation, Ultimate, Perhaps, Human, Difficult

• There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Things, Man, Little, Matter

• He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there’s another dog.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Think, Humble, Interest, Mirror, Matter

• All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Blood, Mind