Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes about Earth

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If we surrendered to earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees.

If we surrendered to earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Nature, Tree, Earth

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

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

we are continually overflowing toward those who preceded us, toward our origin, and toward those who seemingly come after us. ... It is our task to imprint this temporary, perishable earth into ourselves so deeply, so painfully and passionately, that its essence can rise again “invisibly,” inside us. We are the bees of the invisible. We wildly collect the honey of the visible, to store it in the great golden hive of the invisible.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Essence, Tasks, Earth

Everyone once, once only. Just once and no more. And we also once. Never again. But this having been once, although only once, to have been of the earth, seems irrevocable.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Earth, Irrevocable, Has Beens

Rainer Maria Rilke (1961). “Duino Elegies, Bilingual Edition”, p.67, Univ of California Press

Earth, is not this what you will: in us to rise up invisible? Is it, O Earth, not your dream once to be wholly invisible? Earth! Invisible! What, if not change, is your desperate mission?

Rainer Maria Rilke

Dream, What If, Earth

Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes about Earth

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