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Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes - Page 7

Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.

Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.

Rainer Maria Rilke, John J. L. Mood (1994). “Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations”, p.119, W. W. Norton & Company

I want to love the things as no one has thought to love them.

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

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.

"Letters to a Young Poet". Book by Rainer Maria Rilke. Letter One (February 17, 1903), the 1993 translation by M. D. Herter Norton, 1929.

Space for the Spirit to breathe.

Rainer Maria Rilke (2007). “Letters on Life: New Prose Translations”, p.29, Modern Library

May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children.

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

My blood is alive with many voices telling me I am made of longing.

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

All things want to float.

Rainer Maria Rilke (2011). “Sonnets to Orpheus”, p.83, Wesleyan University Press

Live the questions now.

Rainer Maria Rilke (2012). “Letters to a Young Poet”, p.21, Courier Corporation