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Joy is a marvelous increasing of what exists, a pure addition out of nothingness.

Joy is a marvelous increasing of what exists, a pure addition out of nothingness.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Joy, Marvelous, Pure
Rainer Maria Rilke (2014). “The Duino Elegies & The Sonnets to Orpheus: A Dual Language Edition”, p.240, Vintage

The most visible joy can only reveal itself to us when we've transformed it, within.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Joy, Visible, Transformed
Rainer Maria Rilke (1984). “Prose and poetry”, Burns & Oates

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.

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”

If only it were possible for us to see farther than our knowledge reaches, and even a little beyond the outworks of our presentiment, perhaps we would bear our sadnesses with greater trust than we have in our joys.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Sadness, Joy, Littles
Rainer Maria Rilke, Maurice Betz, Will Stone (2012). “Rilke in Paris”, p.51, Hesperus Press

To all that is used-up, and to all the muffled and dumb creatures in the world's full reserve, the unsayable sums, joyfully add yourself, and cancel the count.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Joy, Dumb, Add
Rainer Maria Rilke, “The Sonnets To Orpheus: Book 2: XIII”

Rose, oh pure contradiction, joy of being No-one's sleep under so many lids.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Sleep, Rose, Joy
Rainer Maria Rilke (2015). “Ahead of All Parting: The Selected Poetry and Prose of Rainer Maria Rilke”, p.260, Modern Library

Be forever dead in Eurydice-more gladly arise into the seamless life proclaimed in your song. Here, in the realm of decline, among momentary days, be the crystal cup that shattered even as it rang.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Song, Joy, Forever
Rainer Maria Rilke, “The Sonnets To Orpheus: Book 2: XIII”

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