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If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable.

If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Inspiring, Nature, Simplicity
Rainer Maria Rilke (2010). “Letters to a Young Poet”, p.34, New World Library

And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been

Rainer Maria Rilke
New Year, Nature, New Beginnings

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)

Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Nature, Spring, Heart
Rainer Maria Rilke (1969). “Letters”

May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Nature, Children, Integrity
Rainer Maria Rilke (1996). “Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God”, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)

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

This above all-ask yourself in the stillest hour of your night: must I write? Delve into yourself for a deep answer. And if this should be affirmative, if you may meet this earnest question with a strong and simple "I must," then build your life according to this necessity; your life even into its most indifferent and slightest hour must be a sign of this urge and a testimony to it. Then draw near to Nature. Then try, like some first human being, to say what you see and experience and love and lose.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Strong, Nature, Writing

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