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Quote by Rainer Maria Rilke

“Right in the difficult we must have our joys, our happiness, our dreams: there against the depth of this background, they stand out, there for the first time we see how beautiful they are.”

Book:Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910

Work

Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910

This volume includes correspondence from Rilke to various individuals, showcasing his thoughts, emotions, and literary insights during a pivotal period of his life. more

Author

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

“Things aren't all so tangible and sayable as people would usually have us believe; most experiences are unsayable, they happen in a space that no word has ever entered, and more unsayable than all other things are works of art, those mysterious existences, whose life endures beside our own small, transitory life”

People Believe Art Happens Space Existence Endure Mysterious Works Of Art Tangible Transitory

Book:Letters to a Young Poet

Source: Letters to a Young Poet

“It was curious to think that the sky was the same for everybody, in Eurasia or Eastasia as well as here. And the people under the sky were also very much the same--everywhere, all over the world, hundreds or thousands of millions of people just like this, people ignorant of one another's existence, held apart by walls of hatred and lies, and yet almost exactly the same--people who had never learned to think but were storing up in their hearts and bellies and muscles the power that would one day overturn the world.”