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All quotes by "Rainer Maria Rilke"
| Quote | Author |
| Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other. | - Rainer Maria Rilke |
| For one human being to love another:: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which�all other work is but preparation. | - Rainer Maria Rilke |
| Romance poem of the day: WOMAN IN LOVE That is my window. Just now I have so softly wakened. I thought that I would float. How far does my life reach, and where does the night begin I could think that everything was still me all around; transparent like a crystal's depths, darkened, mute. I could keep even the stars within me; so immense my heart seems to me; so willingly it let him go again. whom I began perhaps to love, perhaps to hold. Like something strange, undreamt-of, my fate now gazes at me. For what, then, am I stretched out beneath this endlessness, exuding fragrance like a meadow, swayed this way and that, calling out and frightened that someone will hear the call, and destined to disappear inside some other life. |
- RAINER MARIA RILKE |
| GOD SPEAKS TO EACH OF US God speaks to each of us before we are, Before he's formed us then, in cloudy speech, But only then, he speaks these words to each And silently walks with us from the dark: Driven by your senses, dare To the edge of longing. Grow Like a fire's shadowcasting glare Behind assembled things, so you can spread Their shapes on me as clothes. Don't leave me bare. Let it all happen to you: beauty and dread. Simply go no feeling is too much And only this way can we stay in touch. Near here is the land That they call Life. You'll know when you arrive By how real it is. Give me your hand. |
- RAINER MARIA RILKE |
