Quote: 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]
Quote: Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle. [Rainer Maria Rilke]
Quote: Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his reflective processes, and incomprehensibly to himself, all his progress should enter so swiftly into the work that he is unable to recognize them in the moment of transition. Alas, the artist who waits in ambush there, watching, detaining them, will find them transformed like the beautiful gold in the fairy tale which cannot remain gold because some small detail was not taken care of. [Rainer Maria Rilke]
Quote: Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, she would never have been able to find these words. [Rainer Maria Rilke]
Quote: The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things [Rainer Maria Rilke]
Quote: 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]
Quote: Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers. [Rainer Maria Rilke]
Quote: This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess. [Rainer Maria Rilke]
Quote: Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always. [Rainer Maria Rilke]
Quote: Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems. [Rainer Maria Rilke]
Quote: The great renewal of the world will perhaps consist in this, that man and maid, freed of all false feelings and reluctances, will seek each other not as opposites, but as brother and sister, as neighbors, and will come together as human beings. [Rainer Maria Rilke]
Quote: 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]
Quote: The only journey is the one within. [Rainer Maria Rilke]
Quote: Painting is something that takes place among the colors, and one has to leave them alone completely, so that they can settle the matter among themselves. Their intercourse: this is the whole of painting. Whoever meddles, arranges, injects his human deliberation, his wit, his advocacy, his intellectual agility in any way, is already disturbing and clouding their activity. [Rainer Maria Rilke]
Quote: 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. [Rainer Maria Rilke]
Quote: All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood. [Rainer Maria Rilke]
Quote: 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. [Rainer Maria Rilke]
Quote: Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night. [Rainer Maria Rilke]
Quote: 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]
Quote: I have never been aware before how many faces there are. There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several. [Rainer Maria Rilke]
Quote: I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other. [Rainer Maria Rilke]
Quote: I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone. [Rainer Maria Rilke]
Quote: 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]
Quote: It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning. [Rainer Maria Rilke]
Quote: 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]