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Since I've learned to be silent, everything has come so much closer to me.

Since I've learned to be silent, everything has come so much closer to me.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Learning, Silence, I've Learned

The moments when something new has entered us, something unknown; our feelings grow mute in shy embarrassment, everything in us withdraws, a silence arises, and the new experience, which no one knows, stands in the midst of it all and says nothing.

Rainer Maria Rilke
New Experiences, Silence, Feelings
Rainer Maria Rilke, Maurice Betz, Will Stone (2012). “Rilke in Paris”, p.51, Hesperus Press

Our task is to listen to the news that is always arriving out of silence.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Silence, Intuition, Arriving

Whoever you are: in the evening step out of your room, where you know everything; yours is the last house before the far-off: whoever you are. With your eyes, which in their weariness barely free themselves from the worn-out threshold, you lift very slowly one black tree and place it against the sky: slender, alone. And you have made the world. And it is huge and like a word which grows ripe in silence. And as your will seizes on its meaning, tenderly your eyes let it go.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Eye, Sky, Silence
Rainer Maria Rilke (2014). “The Book of Images”, p.5, North Point Press

Music: breathing of statues. Perhaps: silence of paintings. You language where all language ends. You time standing vertically on the motion of mortal hearts.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Heart, Breathing, Silence
Rainer Maria Rilke, “To Music”

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