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Rainer Maria Rilke

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Take your well-disciplined strengths, stretch them between the two great opposing poles, because inside human beings is where God learns.


— Rainer Maria Rilke


#spiritual #inspirational

Swells, Marina? we ocean, depths, Marina? we sky!


— Rainer Maria Rilke


#love

Art too is just a way of living.


— Rainer Maria Rilke


#art

All things want to float.


— Rainer Maria Rilke


#poets #poetry-quotes

It wasn't his, it wasn't my fault, we both had nothing except patience, but Death has none. I saw him come (how meanly!) and I watched him as he took and took: none of it I could claim as mine.


— Rainer Maria Rilke


#death

Everything is gestation and then birthing.


— Rainer Maria Rilke


#life

And when suddenly the god stopped her and, with anguish in his cry, uttered the words: ‘He has turned round’ – she comprehended nothing and said softly: ‘Who?


— Rainer Maria Rilke


#forgetting #memory #mythology #death

Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force its sap and stands confidence in the storms of spring without fear that after them may come no summer


— Rainer Maria Rilke


#tree #nature

we want it visible to show when even the most visible joy will reveal itself only when we have transformed it within. there’s nowhere, my love, the world can exist expect within.


— Rainer Maria Rilke


#love #poet #poetry #love

Now we wake up with our memory and fix our gazes on that which was; whispering sweetness, which once coursed through us, sits silently beside us with loosened hair


— Rainer Maria Rilke


#memory #love






About Rainer Maria Rilke

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Did you know about Rainer Maria Rilke?

During the later part of this decade Rilke spent extended periods in Ronda the famous bull-fighting center in southern Spain. During this time Reinhart introduced Rilke to his protégée the Australian violinist Alma Moodie. While doing so he pricked his hand on a thorn.

His writings include one novel several collections of poetry and several volumes of correspondence in which he invokes haunting images that focus on the difficulty of communion with the ineffable in an age of disbelief solitude and profound anxiety. These deeply existential themes tend to position him as a transitional figure between the traditional and the modernist writers. While born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire Rilke travelled extensively throughout Europe and North Africa including Russia Spain Germany France Italy and in his later years settled in Switzerland—settings that were key to the genesis and inspiration for many of his poems.

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