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You must give birth to your images. They are the future waiting to be born.

You must give birth to your images. They are the future waiting to be born.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Future, Giving, Waiting

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

We make our way through Everything like thread passing through fabric, giving shape to images that we ourselves do not know.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Giving, Fabric, Shapes
Rainer Maria Rilke (2007). “Letters on Life: New Prose Translations”, p.48, Modern Library

I could give you no advice but this: to go into yourself and to explore the depths where your life wells forth.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Spiritual, Giving, Advice
Rainer Maria Rilke (2012). “Letters to a Young Poet”, p.13, Courier Corporation

It is true that these mysteries are dreadful, and people have always drawn away from them. But where can we find anything sweet and glorious that would never wear this mask, the mask of the dreadful? Whoever does not, sometimes or other, give his full consent, his full and joyous consent to the dreadfulness of life, can never take possession of the unutterable abundance and power of our existence; can only walk on its edge, and one day, when the judgment is given, will have been neither alive nor dead.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Sweet, People, Giving
Rainer Maria Rilke (2014). “The Duino Elegies & The Sonnets to Orpheus: A Dual Language Edition”, p.223, Vintage

You who let yourselves feel: enter the breathing That is more than your own. Let it brush your cheeks As it divides and rejoins behind you. The trees you planted in childhood have grown Too heavy. You cannot bring them along. Give yourselves to the air, to what you cannot hold.

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

I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me.

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

Be-and yet know the great void where all things begin, the infinite source of your own most intense vibration, so that, this once, you may give it your perfect assent.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Giving, Perfect, Joy
Rainer Maria Rilke, “The Sonnets To Orpheus: Book 2: XIII”

Our being is continually undergoing and entering upon changes. ... We must, strictly speaking, at every moment give each other up and let each other go and not hold each other back.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Change, Giving, Entering
Rainer Maria Rilke (1945). “Letters”

Society has been able to create refuges of every sort, for since it preferred to take love-life as an amusement, it also had to give it an easy form, cheap, safe, and sure, as public amusements are.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Love Life, Giving, Amusement

For our part, when we feel, we evaporate; ah, we breathe ourselves out and away; with each new heartfire we give off a fainter scent. True, someone may tell us: you're in my blood, this room, Spring itself is filled with you . . . To what end? He can't hold us, we vanish within him and around him.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Spring, Blood, Giving

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