More from Rainer Maria Rilke

  1. He was a poet and hated the approximate.
  2. Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is e…
  3. The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned within you.
  4. Everywhere I am folded, there I am a lie.
  5. 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…
  6. 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 …
  7. 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 …
  8. Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his reflective…

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