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Quote by Rainer Maria Rilke

“Isn't it time that these most ancient sorrows of ours grew fruitful? Time that we tenderly loosed ourselves from the loved one, and, unsteadily, survived: the way the arrow, suddenly all vector, survives the string to be more than itself. For abiding is nowhere.”

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Rainer Maria Rilke

German poet known for his profound poetry and epistolary works. Rainer Maria Rilke's poetry style is unique, often exploring themes such as loneliness, love, and religious faith. more

“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.”

Giving Feels May Ends Rooms Blood Spring Filled Breathe Scent

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“Look: the trees exist; the houses we dwell in stand there stalwartly. Only we pass by it all, like a rush of air. And everything conspires to keep quiet about us, half out of shame perhaps, half out of some secret hope.”

Looks House Secret Half Air Tree Quiet Shame

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“All I have learned, I learned from books.”

Inspirational Book Education I Have Learned Self Education

Author:Abraham Lincoln

“When you're writing you're trying to find out something which you don't know.”

Knows Writing Trying

Author:James A. Baldwin