It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.

Quote by Rainer Maria Rilke

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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue,...

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue,...

A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them -...

A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them -...

Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see...

Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see...

Destiny itself is like a wonderful wide tapestry in which every thread is guided by...

Destiny itself is like a wonderful wide tapestry in which every thread is guided by...

There are quantities of human faces, but there are many more faces, for each person...

There are quantities of human faces, but there are many more faces, for each person...

These soft nights hold me like themselves aloft and I lie without a lover.

These soft nights hold me like themselves aloft and I lie without a lover.

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our...

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our...

Physical pleasure is a sensual experience no different from pure seeing or the pure sensation...

Physical pleasure is a sensual experience no different from pure seeing or the pure sensation...

For believe me, the more one is, the richer is all that one experiences. And...

For believe me, the more one is, the richer is all that one experiences. And...

It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must...

It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must...

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of our...

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of our...

But everything that may some day be possible to many the solitary man can now...

But everything that may some day be possible to many the solitary man can now...

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.

No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.

No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.

We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.

We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.

Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.

Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more...

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more...

Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.

Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.

There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.

There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.

There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while...

There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while...