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
Someday you will name me, then gently place those burning holy roses in my hair.
It is clear that we must embrace struggle. Every living thing conforms to it. Everything in nature grows and struggles in its own way, establishing its own identity, insisting on it at all cost, against all resistance.
I want to unfold. Let no place in me hold itself closed, for where I am closed, I am false...
Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.
It is always what I have already said: always the wish that you may find patience enough in yourself to endure, and simplicity enough to believe; that you may acquire more and more confidence in that which is difficult, and in your solitude among others. And for the rest, let life happen to you. Believe me: life is right, in any case.
What batters you becomes your strength.
Don't take my devils away, because my angels may flee too.
No one can advise and help you, no one. There is only one way: go within.
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.