Quotes Tagged With :rilke

Rilke wrote: 'These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space....

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

It is clear enough that not every something can be elevated to the rank of a thing - otherwise everything....