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And when suddenly the god stopped her and, with anguish in his cry, uttered the words: ‘He has turned round’ – she comprehended nothing and said softly: ‘Who?

And when suddenly the god stopped her and, with anguish in his cry, uttered the words: ‘He has turned round’ – she comprehended nothing and said softly: ‘Who?

Rainer Maria Rilke
Cry, Said, Anguish

I never read anything concerning my work. I feel that criticism is a letter to the public which the author, since it is not directed to him, does not have to open and read.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Criticism, Doe, Letters
Rainer Maria Rilke (1969). “Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910”, p.293, W. W. Norton & Company

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

Rainer Maria Rilke
May, Be Good, Pleasant

Describe your sorrows and desires, passing thoughts and the belief in some sort of beauty-describe all these with loving, quiet, humble sincerity, and use, to express yourself, the things in your environment, the images from your dreams, and the objects of your memory.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Dream, Memories, Humble

How can I keep my soul in me, so that it doesn't touch your soul? How can I raise it high enough, past you, to other things?

Rainer Maria Rilke
Past, Soul, Enough
Rainer Maria Rilke, “Love Song”

My art is representational by choice....if the art of painting is to survive, it must describe and express people, their lives and times. It must communicate.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Art, People, Choices

What do the contours of your body mean, laid out like the lines on a hand, so that I no longer see them except as fate?

Rainer Maria Rilke
Mean, Fate, Hands

with poems one accomplishes so little when one writes them early. One should hold off and gather sense and sweetness a whole life long, a long life if possible, and then, right at the end, one could perhaps write ten lines that are good.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Writing, Long, Lines
Rainer Maria Rilke, Burton Pike (2008). “The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge”, p.13, Dalkey Archive Press

Love the questions themselves...Live the questions now and have confidence that someday far into the future, [I will live my] way into the answer.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Answers, Way, Someday

Just as the creative artist is not allowed to choose, neither is he permitted to turn his back on anything: a single refusal, and he is cast out of the state of grace and becomes sinful all the way through.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Artist, Creative, Grace
Rainer Maria Rilke (2002). “Letters on Cézanne”, p.60, Macmillan

Do not, do not, do not books for ever hammer at people like perpetual bells? When, between two books, silent sky appears: be glad

Rainer Maria Rilke
Book, Sky, Two

That is longing: To dwell in the flux of things, To have no home in the present. And these are wishes: gentle dialogues Of the poor hours with eternity.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Home, Wish, Longing
Rainer Maria Rilke (2014). “Poems”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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