Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.The Book of Hours, 2008
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Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) was a Bohemian-Austrian poet and novelist. He is best known for his lyrical poetry and prose, particularly his collection of poems "Duino Elegies" and "Letters to a Young Poet." Rilke's work is celebrated for its sensitive and profound exploration of the human condition and the nature of art.
1875–1926·lived 51 years
Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.The Book of Hours, 2008
Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.Letters to a Young Poet, p. 27, 1986
Our deepest fears are like dragons guarding our deepest treasure.
Spring has come again. The earth is like a child that has learned poems by heart.The Book of Hours, 1905
No one can advise and help you, no one. There is only one way: go within.Letters to a Young Poet, 1929
The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.Letters to a Young Poet, p. 27, 1986
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.Letters to a Young Poet, p. 27, 1986
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.Letter to Emanuel von Bodman, August 17, 1901. In: Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910 (W. W. Norton & Company, 1969), p. 57
The only journey is the one within.
The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.The Man Watching, 1901
That’s all 10 quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke.