“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves.” - Rainer Maria Rilke
“Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.” - Rainer Maria Rilke
“The only journey is the one within.” - Rainer Maria Rilke
“If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poetic enough to call forth its riches.” - Rainer Maria Rilke
“A work of art is good if it has grown out of necessity.” - Rainer Maria Rilke
“No experience has been too unimportant, and the smallest event unfolds like a fate.” - Rainer Maria Rilke
“Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.” - Rainer Maria Rilke
“For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks.” - Rainer Maria Rilke
“I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world.” - Rainer Maria Rilke
“You are looking outward, and that above all you should not do now. No one can advise or help you—no one. There is only one thing you should do. Go into yourself. Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depths of your heart; confess to yourself whether you would have to die if you were forbidden to write.” - Rainer Maria Rilke
“Therefore, dear Sir, love your solitude and try to sing out with the pain it causes you. For those who are near you are far away… and this shows that the space around you is beginning to grow vast… be happy about your growth, in which of course you can’t take anyone with you, and be gentle with those who stay behind; be confident and calm in front of them and don’t torment them with your doubts and don’t frighten them with your faith or joy, which they wouldn’t be able to comprehend. Seek out some simple and true feeling of what you have in common with them, which doesn’t necessarily have to alter when you yourself change again and again; when you see them, love life in a form that is not your own and be indulgent toward those who are growing old, who are afraid of the aloneness that you trust… and don’t expect understanding; but 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
“The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.” - Letters to a Young Poet
“Irony: Do not let yourself be governed by it, especially not in unproductive moments.” - Letters to a Young Poet
“This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.” - Letters to a Young Poet
“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage.” - Letters to a Young Poet
“It is part of the nature of every definitive love that sooner or later it can reach the beloved only in infinity.” - Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties
“Read as little as possible of literary criticism… Works of art are of an infinite solitude.” - Letters to a Young Poet