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Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.

Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Patience, Ego, Solitude
"Sunbeams: A Book of Quotations". Book edited by Sy Safransky, p. 42, 1990.

They, who passed away long ago, still exist in us, as predisposition, as burden upon our fate, as murmuring blood, and as gesture that rises up from the depths of time.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Fate, Long Ago, Blood
Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

Success, which is something so simple in the end, is made up of thousands of things, we never fully know what.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Success, Simple, Ends
Rainer Maria Rilke (1969). “Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910”, p.269, W. W. Norton & Company

That’s love: Two lonely persons keep each other safe and touch each other and talk to each other.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Lonely, Two, Safe

Fame is finally only the sum total of all the misunderstanding that can gather around a new name.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Names, Fame, Misunderstanding

It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.

Rainer Maria Rilke
New Beginnings, Able, Violence
Rainer Maria Rilke (1986). “Rodin and Other Prose Pieces”

I am the rest between two notes which are somehow always in discord.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Two, Notes, Discord

If my devils are to leave me, I'm afraid my angels will take flight as well.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Angel, Devil, Flight

For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so, because it serenely disdains to destroy us. Every angel is terrible.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Angel, Able, Endure

I learn it every day of my life, learn it with pain I am grateful for: patience is everything!

Rainer Maria Rilke
Patience, Pain, Grateful
Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

...a carefree letting go of oneself, not a caution, but a wise blindness.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Letting Go, Wise, Carefree

But there is much beauty here, because there is much beauty everywhere.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Beauty Everywhere
Rainer Maria Rilke (2013). “Letters to a Young Poet”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

You, darkness, of whom I am born- I love you more than the flame that limits the world to the circle it illumines and excludes the rest.

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

If you will cling to Nature, to the simple in Nature, to the little things that hardly anyone sees, and that can so unexpectedly become big and beyond measuring; if you have this love of inconsiderable things and seek quite simply, as one who serves, to win the confidence of what seems poor: then everything will become easier, more coherent and somehow more conciliatory for you, not in your intellect, perhaps, which lags marveling behind, but in your inmost consciousness, waking and cognizance.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Nature, Winning, Simple

Every angel is terrifying.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Angel, Elegy
Duino Elegies no. 1 (written 1912) (translation by Stephen Mitchell)

But because truly being here is so much; because everything here apparently needs us, this fleeting world, which in some strange way keeps calling to us. Us, the most fleeting of all.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Fleeting World, Needs, Calling
Rainer Maria Rilke (2014). “The Duino Elegies & The Sonnets to Orpheus: A Dual Language Edition”, p.55, Vintage

Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Beautiful, Princess, Adversity
Rainer Maria Rilke (2012). “Letters to a Young Poet”, p.39, Courier Corporation

The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Women, Creativity, Receiving
Rainer Maria Rilke (1969). “Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910”, p.181, W. W. Norton & Company

I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Book, Heart, Trying
"Letters to a Young Poet". Book by Rainer Maria Rilke. Letter Four (July 16, 1903), 1929.

Death is the side of life which is turned away from us.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Death, Sides

The only sadnesses that are dangerous and unhealthy are the ones that we carry around in public in order to drown them out with the noise.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Sadness, Order, Noise
Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

We are unutterably alone essentially, especially in the things most intimate and most important.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Important, Intimate
Rainer Maria Rilke (2010). “Letters to a Young Poet”, p.18, New World Library

Were it possible for us to see further than our knowledge reaches, and yet a little way beyond the outworks of our divinings, perhaps we would endure our sadnesses with greater confidence than our joys. For they are the moments when something new has entered into us, something unknown; our feelings grow mute in shy perplexity, everything in us withdraws, a stillness comes, and the new, which no one knows, stands in the midst of it and is silent.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Sadness, Joy, Feelings

Every intensification is good, if it is in your entire blood, if it isn't intoxication or muddiness, but joy which you can see into, clear to the bottom.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Blood, Joy, Intoxication
"Letters to a Young Poet" by Rainer Maria Rilke, Letter Nine (4 November 1904), 1934.

All professions are... filled with demands.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Demand, Filled, Profession

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