Authors:
  1. Quotes
  2. Authors
  3. R
  4. Rainer Maria Rilke
  5. That is the principal thing-not to remain with the dream,...

That is the principal thing-not to remain with the dream, with the intention, with the being-in-the-mood, but always forcibly to convert it all into things.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Dream, Mood, Intention
Rainer Maria Rilke (1969). “Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910”, p.85, W. W. Norton & Company
That is the principal thing-not to remain with the dream, with the intention, with the being-in-the-mood, but always forcibly to convert it all into things.