Quotes Tagged With :rilke

Loving isn't merging, surrendering, uniting with the other. Rather, it's a kind of solitude; of profound....

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

We only pass everything by like a transposition of air.

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

What the poet has to say to the torso of the supposed Apollo, however, is more than a note on an excursion....

How they are all about, these gentlemenIn chamberlains' apparel, stocked and laced,Like night around....

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

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

Perhaps all the dragons of your life are princesses, who are only waiting for us to show a little beauty....

And those, who come together in the night and are twined in quivering pleasure, are performing a serious....