Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes

Just keep going – no feeling is final.

All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.

There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.

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

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.

He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there’s another dog.

Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.

you are not too old and it is not too late to dive into your increasing depths where life calmly gives out it’s own secret

One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.

But your solitude will be a support and a home for you, even in the midst of very unfamiliar circumstances, and from it you will find all your paths.

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

Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.

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