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I don't want to stay folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie.

I don't want to stay folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Inspirational, Lying, Want
"Selected Poems".

The artist's experience lies so unbelievably close to the sexual, to its pain and its pleasure, that the two phenomena are really just different forms of one and the same longing and bliss.

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

I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each shall stand guard over the solitude of the other. For, if it lies in the nature of indifference and of the crowd to recognize no solitude, then love and friendship are there for the purpose of continually providing the opportunity for solitude. And only those are the true sharings which rhythmically interrupt periods of deep isolation.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Lying, Opportunity, Two
Rainer Maria Rilke (1960). “Selected letters”

I want to unfold. I don’t want to stay folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Lying, Want, Secretive
Rainer Maria Rilke (1981). “Selected Poems”

I want to unfold. I don't want to stay folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie, and I want my grasp of things to be true. I want to describe myself like a painting that I looked at closely for a long time, like a saying that I finally understood, like the pitcher I use every day, like the face of my mother, like a ship that carried me through the wildest storm of all.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Mother, Lying, Long
Rainer Maria Rilke (1981). “Selected Poems”

I don’t want to stand before you like a thing, shrewd, secretive. I want my own will, and I want simply to be with my will, as it goes toward action. And in the silent, sometimes hardly moving times, when something is coming near, I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone. I want to unfold. I don’t want to be folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Lying, Moving, Secret

Fate loves to invent patterns and designs. Its difficulty lies in complexity. But life itself is difficult because of its simplicity. It has only a few things of a grandeur not fit for us.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Life, Lying, Fate
Rainer Maria Rilke (1984). “Prose and poetry”, Burns & Oates

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