Rainer Maria Rilke
Rainer Maria Rilke
René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke—better known as Rainer Maria Rilke—was a Bohemian-Austrian poet and novelist, "widely recognized as one of the most lyrically intense German-language poets", writing in both verse and highly lyrical prose. Several critics have described Rilke's work as inherently "mystical". His writings include one novel, several collections of poetry, and several volumes of correspondence in which he invokes haunting images that focus on the difficulty of communion with the ineffable in an age of disbelief,...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth4 December 1875
CountryGermany
Death is the side of life which is turned away from us.
For poems are not, as people think, simply emotions (one has emotions early enough)-they are experiences.
Our task is to take this earth so deeply and wholly into ourselves that it will resurrect within our being.
One moment your life is a stone in you, and the next moment a star!
Be of good courage all is before you, and time passed in the difficult is never lost...What is required of us is that we live the difficult and learn to deal with it. In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us.
Our heart always transcends us.
We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it.
I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
You must give birth to your images. They are the future waiting to be born.
Everything that makes more of you than you have ever been, even in your best hours, is right. Every intensification is good.
Don't be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you; simply let it happen. Otherwise it will be too easy for you to look with blame... at your past, which naturally has a share with everything that now meets you.
Wishes are recollections coming from the future.
Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
The point of marriage is not to create a quick commonality by tearing down all boundaries on the contrary, a good marriage is one in which each partner appoints the other to be the guardian of his solitude, and thus they show each other the greatest possible trust.