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Always trust yourself and your own feelings, as opposed to arguments and discussions. If it turns out that you are wrong, then the natural growth of your inner life will eventually guide you to other insights (Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes)
Dying is strange and hard if it is not our death, but a death that takes us by storm, when we’ve ripened none within us (Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes)
I know of no other advice than this: Go within and scale the depths of your being from which your very life springs forth (Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes)
Just as the creative artist is not allowed to choose, neither is he permitted to turn his back on anything: a single refusal, and he is cast out of the state of grace and becomes sinful all the way through (Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes)
Our being is continually undergoing and entering upon changes.... We must, strictly speaking, at every moment give each other up and let each other go and not hold each other back (Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes)
Be out of sync with your times for just one day, and you will see how much eternity you contain within you (Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes)
Since I’ve learned to be silent, everything has come so much closer to me (Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes)
Huge lemons, cut in slices, would sink like setting suns into the dusky sea, softly illuminating it with their radiating membranes, and its clear, smooth surface aquiver from the rising bitter essence (Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes)
God speaks to each of us as he makes us, then walks with us silently out of the night (Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes)
There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several (Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes)
Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love (Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes)
We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it (Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes)
For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so, because it serenely disdains to destroy us. Every angel is terrible (Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes)
Whoever you are, go out into the evening, leaving your room, of which you know every bit; your house is the last before the infinite, whoever you are (Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes)
You must give birth to your images. They are the future waiting to be born. Fear not the strangeness you feel. The future must enter you long before it happens. Just wait for the birth, for the the hour of the new clarity (Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes)
For sometime now I have believed that it is our own force, all our own force that is still too great for us. It is true that we do not know it; but is it not just that which is most our own of which we know the least? (Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes)
Leave to your opinions their own quiet undisturbed development, which, like all progress, must come from deep within and cannot be pressed or hurried by anything (Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes)
How can I keep my soul in me, so that it doesn’t touch your soul? How can I raise it high enough, past you, to other things? (Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes)
This is what the things can teach us: to fall, patiently to trust our heaviness. Even a bird has to do that before he can fly (Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes)
It is part of the nature of every definitive love that sooner or later it can reach the beloved only in infinity (Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes)
He does not always remain bent over the pages; he often leans back and closes his eyes over a line he has been reading again, and its meaning spreads through his blood (Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes)
Girls, there are poets who learn from you to say, what you, in your aloneness, are; and they learn through you to live distantness, as the evenings through the great stars become accustomed to eternity (Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes)
Everyone once, once only. Just once and no more. And we also once. Never again. But this having been once, although only once, to have been of the earth, seems irrevocable (Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes)
Right in the difficult we must have our joys, our happiness, our dreams: there against the depth of this background, they stand out, there for the first time we see how beautiful they are (Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes)
Embrace your solitude and love it. Endure the pain it causes, and try to sing out with it. For those near to you are distant (Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes)
That’s love: Two lonely persons keep each other safe and touch each other and talk to each other (Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes)
And you suddenly know: It was here! You pull yourself together, and there stands an irrevocable year of anguish and vision and prayer (Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes)
A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it (Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes)
You are not too old and it is not too late to dive into your increasing depths where life calmly gives out it’s own secret (Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes)
With poems one accomplishes so little when one writes them early. One should hold off and gather sense and sweetness a whole life long, a long life if possible, and then, right at the end, one could perhaps write ten lines that are good (Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes)