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“All professions are... filled with demands.”

Quote by Rainer Maria Rilke

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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

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“Ask yourself in the most silent hour of your night: must I write [create]? Dig into yourself for a deep answer.”

Writing Night Asks Hours Answers Silent

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“We must accept our reality as vastly as we possibly can; everything, even the unprecedented, must be possible within it.”

Reality Accepting Unprecedented

Book:Letters to a Young Poet

Source: Letters to a Young Poet

“He was a worker whose only desire was to penetrate with all his forces into the humble and difficult significance of his tools. Therein lay a certain renunciation of Life, but in just this renunciation lay his triumph, for Life entered into his work.”

Desire Certain Force Difficult Tools Lays Workers Humble Triumph Significance Sculpture Penetrate Renunciation

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“The moments when something new has entered us, something unknown; our feelings grow mute in shy embarrassment, everything in us withdraws, a silence arises, and the new experience, which no one knows, stands in the midst of it all and says nothing.”

Knows Moments Feelings Grows Silence Arise Shy Midst Something New Embarrassment Mute New Experiences

Book:Rilke in Paris

Source: Rilke in Paris

“Solitude is nothing that one can choose or retrain from. We are solitary. We can delude ourselves about this and act as if it were not true. That is all.”

Ifs Solitude Solitary

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“Space for the Spirit to breathe.”

Spirit Space Breathe

Book:Letters on Life: New Prose Translations

Source: Letters on Life: New Prose Translations

“Always trust yourself and your own feelings, as opposed to arguments and discussions. If it turns out that you are wrong, then the natural growth of your inner life will eventually guide you to other insights.”

Ifs Feelings Turns Growth Natural Trust Argument Insight Guides Discussion Trust Yourself Inner Life

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“Security of character would be like a compass, you know? Other people may say that this way is north, or this way might be north. But the compass just says -- north. That's what we count on.”

People Knows Way May Character Might Would Be Compassion Security Compass

Author:William Stafford

“It is as if the ordinary language we use every day has a hidden set of signals, a kind of secret code.”

Ifs Kind Use Language Secret Ordinary Code Signals

Book:Crossing unmarked snow: further views on the writer's vocation

Source: Crossing unmarked snow: further views on the writer's vocation

“The ocean and I have many pebbles To find and wash off and roll into shape.”

Sea Shapes Ocean Pebbles

Book:Crossing unmarked snow: further views on the writer's vocation

Source: Crossing unmarked snow: further views on the writer's vocation