Quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke

Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is...

#Rainer Maria Rilke

Truly to sing, that is a different breath.

#Rainer Maria Rilke

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

#Rainer Maria Rilke

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

#Rainer Maria Rilke

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

#Rainer Maria Rilke

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

#Rainer Maria Rilke

There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to...

#Rainer Maria Rilke

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

#Rainer Maria Rilke

The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it...

#Rainer Maria Rilke

The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and...

#Rainer Maria Rilke

Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone...

#Rainer Maria Rilke

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

#Rainer Maria Rilke