More from Rainer Maria Rilke

  1. The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned within you.
  2. Death is the dies of life which is turned away from us.
  3. I am much too alone in this world, yet not alone enough to truly consecrate the hour. I am much too small in this world, yet not small enou…
  4. Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is e…
  5. Schon ist mein Blick am Hugel, dem besonnten, dem Wege, den ich kaum begann, voran. So fasst uns das, was wir nicht fassen konnten, voller …
  6. Everywhere I am folded, there I am a lie.
  7. Ach, die Garten bist du, ach, ich sah sie mit solcher Hoffnung. Ein offenes Fenster im Landhaus-, und du tratest beinahe mir nachdenklich h…
  8. Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can …

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