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  • #1
    Michael Cunningham
    “You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
    Michael Cunningham, The Hours

  • #2
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.”
    Rainer Maria Rilke

  • #3
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “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

  • #4
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “The only journey is the one within.”
    Rainer Maria Rilke

  • #5
    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

  • #6
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow”
    Rainer Maria Rilke

  • #7
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “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

  • #8
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “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

  • #9
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “I live not in dreams but in contemplation of a reality that is perhaps the future.”
    Rainer Maria Rilke

  • #10
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “Every angel is terrifying.”
    Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies

  • #11
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “Everything terrible is something that needs our love.”
    Rainer Maria Rilke

  • #12
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “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

  • #13
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “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

  • #14
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “Shattered people are best represented by bits and pieces.”
    Rainer Maria Rilke

  • #15
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “But there is much beauty here, because there is much beauty everywhere.”
    Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

  • #16
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “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

  • #17
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “Perhaps the same bird echoed through both of us yesterday, seperate, in the evening.”
    Rainer Maria Rilke

  • #18
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.”
    Rainer Maria Rilke

  • #19
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.”
    Rainer Maria Rilke

  • #20
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “Strangely, I heard a stranger say, I am with you.”
    Rainer Maria Rilke

  • #21
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “As if no one had ever tried before, try to say what you see and feel and love and lose.”
    Rainer Maria Rilke

  • #22
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror.”
    Rainer Maria Rilke

  • #23
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “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

  • #24
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “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

  • #25
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “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

  • #26
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “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

  • #27
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “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

  • #28
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “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

  • #29
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “There is only one journey. Going inside yourself.”
    Rainer Maria Rilke

  • #30
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “Life is heavier than the weight of all things.”
    Rainer Maria Rilke



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