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I believe that nothing that is real can pass away.

I believe that nothing that is real can pass away.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Real, Believe, Passing Away
Rainer Maria Rilke (1969). “Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910”, p.145, W. W. Norton & Company

The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Future, Order, Long

As bees gather honey, so we collect what is sweetest out of all things and build.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Honey, Bees, Construction
Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

What is necessary, after all, is only this: solitude, vast inner solitude. To walk inside yourself and meet no one for hours-that is what you must be able to attain. To be solitary as you were when you were a child.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Children, Solitude, Able
"Letters to a Young Poet". Book by Rainer Maria Rilke, 6, 1929.

Think... of the world you carry within you, and call this thinking whatever you want to: a remembering of your own childhood or a yearning toward a future of your own - only be attentive to what is arising within you, and place that above everything you perceive around you. What is happening in your innermost self is worthy of your entire love; somehow you must find a way to work at it.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Healing, Thinking, Self
Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

Things aren't all so tangible and sayable as people would usually have us believe; most experiences are unsayable, they happen in a space that no word has ever entered, and more unsayable than all other things are works of art, those mysterious existences, whose life endures beside our own small, transitory life

Rainer Maria Rilke
Art, Believe, Space
Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

Joy is a marvelous increasing of what exists, a pure addition out of nothingness.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Joy, Marvelous, Pure
Rainer Maria Rilke (2014). “The Duino Elegies & The Sonnets to Orpheus: A Dual Language Edition”, p.240, Vintage

I believe in all that has never yet been spoken.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Believe, I Believe, I Believe In
Rainer Maria Rilke (1996). “Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God”, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)

Is not impermanence the very fragrance of our days?

Rainer Maria Rilke
Impermanence, Fragrance

Now I come to you full of future. And from habit we begin to live our past.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Future, Past, Habit

Our task is to take this earth so deeply and wholly into ourselves that it will resurrect within our being.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Tasks, Earth

I would like to beg of you, dear friend, as well as I can, to have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Heart, Inner Peace, Relaxation
"Letters to a Young Poet".

What batters you becomes your strength.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Rushing Water
Rainer Maria Rilke (2005). “In Praise of Mortality: Selections from Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus”, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)

A birdsong can even, for a moment, make the whole world into a sky within us, because we feel that the bird does not distinguish between its heart and the world's.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Heart, Sky, Bird

Again and again in history some people wake up. They have no ground in the crowd and move to broader deeper laws. They carry strange customs with them and demand room for bold and audacious action. The future speaks ruthlessly through them. They change the world.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Moving, Law, People

Embrace your solitude and love it. Endure the pain it causes, and try to sing out with it. For those near to you are distant.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Pain, Solitude, Trying
Rainer Maria Rilke (2010). “Letters to a Young Poet”, p.39, New World Library

You must give birth to your images. They are the future waiting to be born. Fear not the strangeness you feel. The future must enter you long before it happens. Just wait for the birth, for the the hour of the new clarity.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Long, Giving, Waiting

He does not always remain bent over the pages; he often leans back and closes his eyes over a line he has been reading again, and its meaning spreads through his blood.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Reading, Eye, Blood

Think... of the world you carry within you.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Healing, Thinking, World

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.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Art, Gone, Way
Rainer Maria Rilke (2002). “Letters on Cézanne”, p.4, Macmillan

Solitude is nothing that one can choose or retrain from. We are solitary. We can delude ourselves about this and act as if it were not true. That is all.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Solitude, Solitary, Ifs

Look, we don't love like flowers with only one season behind us; when we love, a sap older than memory rises in our arms.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Memories, Flower, Looks
Rainer Maria Rilke, A. Poulin, Mark Doty (2005). “Duino Elegies and The Sonnets to Orpheus”, p.23, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

If the Angel deigns to appear, it will be because you have convinced him, not by tears but by your humble resolve to be always beginning — to be a Beginner!

Rainer Maria Rilke
Inspirational, Humble, Angel
"Letters to Merline, 1919-1922".

Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Children, Spring, Earth Day

The point is to live everything.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Rainer Maria Rilke, John J. L. Mood (1994). “Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations”, p.31, W. W. Norton & Company

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