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Famous Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
Source: Letters to a Young Poet
Source: Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations
“If my devils are to leave me, I'm afraid my angels will take flight as well.”
Source: Prose and poetry
Source: The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
“Every happiness is the child of a separation it did not think it could survive.”
Source: In Praise of Mortality: Selections from Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus
Source: Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910
“What happens most deeply inside you is worthy of your whole love.”
“To work is to live without dying.”
Source: Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910
Source: Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910
“One moment your life is a stone in you, and the next moment a star!”
Source: Selected poems
“Trees do not force their sap, nor does the flower push its bloom.”
“When we are only victorious over small things, it leaves us feeling small.”
Source: Sonnets to Orpheus
Source: Letters to a Young Poet
Source: Letters to a Young Poet
“Be, in this immensity of night, the magic force at your sense's crossroad.”
“Perhaps creating something is nothing but an act of profound remembrance.”
Source: Letters on Life: New Prose Translations
“What is needed is, in the end, simply this: solitude, great inner solitude.”
Source: Letters to a Young Poet
“Painting is something that takes place among the colors.”
Source: Letters on Cézanne
Source: In Praise of Mortality: Selections from Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus
“Nearly everything that matters is a challenge, and everything matters.”
“I am too alone in the world and not alone enough to make every moment holy.”
Source: Letters to a Young Poet
“Don't take my devils away, because my angels may flee too.”
“I am touched by your beautiful anxiety about life.”
Source: Letters to a Young Poet
Source: Letters to a Young Poet
“Fame is the sum of the misunderstanding that gathers about a new name.”