Rainer Maria Rilke

(382 votes)   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
1875-1926, German Poet

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(302 votes)   All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.

Rainer Maria Rilke
1875-1926, German Poet

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(251 votes)   Physical pleasure is a sensual experience no different from pure seeing or the pure sensation with which a fine fruit fills the tongue; it is a great unending experience, which is given us, a knowing of the world, the fullness and the glory of all knowing. And not our acceptance of it is bad; the bad thing is that most people misuse and squander this experience and apply it as a stimulant at the tired spots of their lives and as distraction instead of a rallying toward exalted moments.

Rainer Maria Rilke
1875-1926, German Poet

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(243 votes)   Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.

Rainer Maria Rilke
1875-1926, German Poet

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(187 votes)   This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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(186 votes)   This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess.

Rainer Maria Rilke
1875-1926, German Poet

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(184 votes)   Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves ... Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point it, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps, then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.

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

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(160 votes)   Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rainer Maria Rilke
1875-1926, German Poet

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

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(149 votes)   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
1875-1926, German Poet

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(144 votes)   Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.

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(135 votes)   At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and again it is the best thing in life that each should have everything in himself; his fate, his future, his whole expanse and world.

Rainer Maria Rilke
1875-1926, German Poet

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(132 votes)   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.

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(128 votes)   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
1875-1926, German Poet

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