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the knowledge of impermanence that haunts our days is their very fragrance.

the knowledge of impermanence that haunts our days is their very fragrance.

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

I don't want to stay folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Inspirational, Lying, Want
"Selected Poems".

May you gain more and more confidence in what is difficult and in your solitude among other people.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Confidence, People, Solitude
Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

Don't be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you; simply let it happen. Otherwise it will be too easy for you to look with blame... at your past, which naturally has a share with everything that now meets you.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Change, Past, Looks

God... sat down for a moment when the dog was finished in order to watch it... and to know that it was good, that nothing was lacking, that it could not have been made better.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Dog, Order, Watches
Rainer Maria Rilke (1964). “New poems”, Vintage

Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading!

Rainer Maria Rilke
Book, Reading, People
Rainer Maria Rilke (1930). “The Journal of My Other Self”

Everything that makes more of you than you have ever been, even in your best hours, is right. Every intensification is good.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Hours
Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

She followed slowly, taking a long time, As though there were some obstacles in the way; And yet: as though, once it was overcome, She would be beyond all walking, and would fly.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Long, Would Be, Way
Rainer Maria Rilke, Walter W. Arndt (1989). “The Best of Rilke: 72 Form-true Verse Translations with Facing Originals, Commentary, and Compact Biography ; Translated by Walter Arndt ; Foreword by Cyrus Hamlin”, p.166, UPNE

What is happening on your innermost self is worthy of your entire love.

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

Always trust yourself and your own feelings, as opposed to arguments and discussions. If it turns out that you are wrong, then the natural growth of your inner life will eventually guide you to other insights.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Trust, Feelings, Growth

Every happiness is the child of a separation it did not think it could survive.

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

You must think that something is happening upon you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand; it will not let you fall.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Fall, Hands, Forgotten
"Letters to a Young Poet".

Don't observe yourself too closely. Don't be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you; simply let it happen.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Observation, Conclusion, Draws
Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

Yet everything that touches us, me and you, takes us together like a violin's bow, which draws one voice out of two separate strings.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Two, Voice, Together
Rainer Maria Rilke (2015). “Ahead of All Parting: The Selected Poetry and Prose of Rainer Maria Rilke”, p.41, Modern Library

Do not be bewildered by the surfaces: in the depths all becomes law.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Powerful, Law, Depth
Rainer Maria Rilke, John J. L. Mood (1994). “Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations”, p.42, W. W. Norton & Company

You are also the physician who must watch over yourself. But in the course of every illness there are many days in which the physician can do nothing but wait.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Waiting, Over You, Physicians
Rainer Maria Rilke (2010). “Letters to a Young Poet”, p.81, New World Library

And do not change. Do not divert your love from visible things. But go on loving what is good, simple and ordinary; animals and things and flowers, and keep the balance true.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Spiritual, Flower, Animal

Somewhere there is an ancient enmity between our daily life and the great work. Help me in saying it, to understand it.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Enmity, Helping, Daily Life

If, when you wake up in the morning, you can think of nothing but writing . . . then you are a writer.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Morning, Writing, Thinking

Love and death are the great gifts that are given to us; mostly they are passed on unopened.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Love And Death, Given, Great Gifts

Keep growing quietly and seriously throughout your whole development; you cannot disturb it more rudely than by looking outward and expecting from outside replies to questions that only your inmost feeling in your most hushed hour can perhaps answer.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Feelings, Growth, Development

Someday you will name me, then gently place those burning holy roses in my hair.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Hair, Names, Rose

Go on loving what is good, simple, and ordinary.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Love, Simple, Ordinary

I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Life, Circles, Community
Rainer Maria Rilke, Anita Barrows, Joanna Macy (1996). “Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God”, Riverhead Trade (Paperbacks)

Shattered people are best represented by bits and pieces.

Rainer Maria Rilke
People, Pieces, Shattered

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