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#1

“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
― Michael Cunningham, The Hours

tags: life, peace

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#2

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

tags: poetry

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#3

“For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror
which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so,
because it serenely disdains to destroy us.
Every angel is terrible.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies

tags: beauty, inspirational

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#4

“The only journey is the one within.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

tags: introspection, journey, self-discovery, within

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#5

“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

tags: beauty, creation, creator, life, poetry

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#6

“If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

tags: rainer-maria-rilke

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#7

“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

tags: children, flow, honesty, integrity, moral-courage, river

517 likes

#8

“If we surrendered
to earth's intelligence
we could rise up rooted, like trees.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God

tags: nature, poetry

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#9

“I live not in dreams but in contemplation of a reality that is perhaps the future.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

tags: poetry

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#10

“Every angel is terrifying.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies

tags: angels, elegy, poetry

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#11

“Everything terrible is something that needs our love.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

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#12

“A billion stars go spinning through the night,
glittering above your head,
But in you is the presence that will be
when all the stars are dead.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke

tags: poetry

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#13

“And you should not let yourself be confused in your solitude by the fact that there is something in you that wants to move out of it.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

tags: aloneness, solitude

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#14

“Shattered people are best represented by bits and pieces.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

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#15

“But there is much beauty here, because there is much beauty everywhere.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

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#16

“In the deepest hour of the night, confess to yourself that you would die if you were forbidden to write. And look deep into your heart where it spreads its roots, the answer, and ask yourself, must I write?”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

tags: art, destiny, inspirational, on-writing

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#17

“Perhaps the same bird echoed through both of us yesterday, seperate, in the evening.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

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#18

“All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

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#19

“Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

tags: heart, poet

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#20

“Strangely, I heard a stranger say, I am with you.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

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#21

“As if no one had ever tried before, try to say what you see and feel and love and lose.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

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#22

“Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

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#23

“For our part, when we feel, we
evaporate; ah, we breathe
ourselves out and away; with each new
heartfire
we give off a fainter scent. True,
someone may tell us:
you're in my blood, this room, Spring
itself
is filled with you . . . To what end?
He can't hold us,
we vanish within him and around him.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies

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#24

“It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

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#25

“Whoever you are, go out into the evening,
leaving your room, of which you know every bit;
your house is the last before the infinite,
whoever you are.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

tags: experience, infinity, life, rilke

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#26

“I live my life in growing orbits which move out over this wondrous world, I am circling around God, around ancient towers and i have been circling for a thousand years. And I still dont know if I am an eagle or a storm or a great song.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God

tags: being, circles, life, orbits

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#27

“A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

tags: rainer-maria-rilke-poet

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#28

“It’s possible, I’m moving through the hard veins of heavy mountains, like an arc, alone; I’m so deep inside, I see no end in sight, and no distance: everything is getting near and everything near is turning to stone.”
― Rilke Rainer Maria

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#29

“There is only one journey. Going inside yourself.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

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#30

“Life is heavier than the weight of all things.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

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