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  • #1
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
    Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

  • #2
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”
    Rainer Maria Rilke

  • #3
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “Let everything happen to you
    Beauty and terror
    Just keep going
    No feeling is final”
    Rainer Maria Rilke

  • #4
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it.”
    Rainer Maria Rilke, Translations from the Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke

  • #5
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “The point of marriage is not to create a quick commonality by tearing down all boundaries; on the contrary, a good marriage is one in which each partner appoints the other to be the guardian of his solitude, and thus they show each other the greatest possible trust. A merging of two people is an impossibility, and where it seems to exist, it is a hemming-in, a mutual consent that robs one party or both parties of their fullest freedom and development. But once the realization is accepted that even between the closest people infinite distances exist, a marvelous living side-by-side can grow up for them, if they succeed in loving the expanse between them, which gives them the possibility of always seeing each other as a whole and before an immense sky.”
    Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

  • #6
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.”
    Rainer Maria Rilke

  • #7
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.”
    Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

  • #8
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world.”
    Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God

  • #9
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and greet each other. ”
    Rainer Maria Rilke

  • #10
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart.
    ...live in the question.”
    Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

  • #11
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned within you.”
    Rainer Maria Rilke

  • #12
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.”
    Rainer Maria Rilke

  • #13
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “The only journey is the one within.”
    Rainer Maria Rilke

  • #14
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been”
    Rainer Maria Rilke

  • #15
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place.”
    Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

  • #16
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.”
    Rainer Maria Rilke

  • #17
    Pablo Neruda
    “I love you as certain dark things are loved, secretly, between the shadow and the soul.”
    Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

  • #18
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “I choose to love you in silence…
    For in silence I find no rejection,

    I choose to love you in loneliness…
    For in loneliness no one owns you but me,

    I choose to adore you from a distance…
    For distance will shield me from pain,

    I choose to kiss you in the wind…
    For the wind is gentler than my lips,

    I choose to hold you in my dreams…
    For in my dreams, you have no end.”
    Rumi

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  • #20
    Sanober  Khan
    “your hand
    touching mine.
    this is how
    galaxies
    collide.”
    Sanober Khan

  • #21
    Sanober  Khan
    “i want to be
    in love with you

    the same way
    i am in
    love with the moon

    with the light
    shining
    out of its soul.”
    Sanober Khan

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  • #23
    Sade Andria Zabala
    “Tell me every terrible thing you ever did, and let me love you anyway.”
    Sade Andria Zabala, Coffee and Cigarettes



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