Quotes Tagged With :rilke

In his field, and with his means, Rilke carries out an operation that one could philosophically describe....

Most days I live awed by the world we have still, rather than mourning the worlds we have lost. The bandit....

If your love for […] wants to do something now, then its work and task is this: to catch up with what....

Rainer Maria Rilke greeted and wrestled with the angels of his Duino Elegies in the solitude of a castle....

Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing....

Whoever you are, go out into the evening,leaving your room, of which you know every bit;your house is....

I live my life in growing orbits which move out over the things of the world.

If you think your world isn’t poetic enough, or exciting enough to tell a story about, that’s not....

She who reconciles the ill-matched threadsOf her life, and weaves them gratefullyInto a single cloth....

…[S]uddenly your eye, which was already preparing itself for larger dimensions, goes about willingly....