Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
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Rainer Maria Rilke
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About Rainer Maria Rilke
René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke, known as Rainer Maria Rilke, was an Austrian poet. Acclaimed as an idiosyncratic and expressive poet, he is widely recognized as a significant writer in the German language. His work is viewed by critics and scholars as possessing undertones of mysticism, exploring themes of subjective experience and disbelief. His writings include one novel, several collections of poetry, several volumes of correspondence and a few early novellas.
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Rainer Maria RilkeFor 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.
This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.
A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
Everything is blooming most recklessly if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.
More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.
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.
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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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 …
No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
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.
No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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.
I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.