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She who reconciles the ill-matched threads
Of her life, and weaves them gratefully
Into a single cloth –
It’s she who drives the loudmouths from the hall
And clears it for a different celebration.


Rainer Maria Rilke

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RAINER MARIA RILKE there is only one solitude, and it is vast, heavy, difficult to bear, and almost everyone has...
RAINER MARIA RILKE [A]t bottom, and just in the deepest and most important things, we are unutterably alone, and for on...
RAINER MARIA RILKE Don't be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you; simply let it happen. Otherwise it ...
RAINER MARIA RILKE The necessary thing is after all but this; solitude, great inner solitude. Going into oneself for ho...
RAINER MARIA RILKE Fame is finally only the sum total of all the misunderstanding that can gather around a new name.
RAINER MARIA RILKE To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the...
RAINER MARIA RILKE You who never arrived
in my arms, Beloved, who were lost
from the start,
I don't e...
RAINER MARIA RILKE Loving isn't merging, surrendering, uniting with the other. Rather, it's a kind of solitude; of prof...
RAINER MARIA RILKE The point of marriage is not to create a quick commonality by tearing down all boundaries; on the co...
RAINER MARIA RILKE To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the...
RAINER MARIA RILKE Extinguish my eyes, I'll go on seeing you.
Seal my ears, I'll go on hearing you.
And witho...
RAINER MARIA RILKE It is also good to love: because love is difficult. For one human being to love another human being:...
RAINER MARIA RILKE Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, ...
RAINER MARIA RILKE Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly...
RAINER MARIA RILKE God...sat down for a moment when the dog was finished in order to watch it... and to know that it wa...
RAINER MARIA RILKE I have never been aware before how many faces there are. There are quantities of human beings, but t...
RAINER MARIA RILKE There are quantities of human faces, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
RAINER MARIA RILKE I am, O Anxious One. Don’t you hear my voice
surging forth with all my earthly feelings?
RAINER MARIA RILKE Do you remember…(doesn’t that appear in each of my letters?), do you remember that you spoke of ...
RAINER MARIA RILKE Here is the time for the sayable, here
is its home.
Speak and attest. More than ever
RAINER MARIA RILKE What goes on in your innermost being is worth all your love, this is what you must work on however y...
RAINER MARIA RILKE But this is what ... people are so often and disastrously wrong in doing: they (who by their very na...
RAINER MARIA RILKE Keep growing quietly and seriously throughout your whole development; you cannot disturb it more rud...
RAINER MARIA RILKE It is not inertia alone that is responsible for human relationships repeating themselves from case t...
RAINER MARIA RILKE Things aren't all so tangible and sayable as people would usually have us believe; most experiences ...
RAINER MARIA RILKE But your solitude will be a support and a home for you, even in the midst of very unfamiliar circums...
RAINER MARIA RILKE Embrace your solitude and love it. Endure the pain it causes, and try to sing out with it. For those...
RAINER MARIA RILKE And you, Clara Westhoff, how simply and well you endured, lived through the experience, and made it ...
RAINER MARIA RILKE, Songs of longing!

And they will resound in my letters, just as they always have, sometim...
RAINER MARIA RILKE …As one puts a handkerchief before pent-in-breath-
no: as one presses it against a wound
RAINER MARIA RILKE …Lovers were not, Marina, *are* not permitted to know
destruction so deeply. Must be as if th...
RAINER MARIA RILKE ...We of the here-and-now are not for a moment satisfied in the world of time, nor are we bound in i...
RAINER MARIA RILKE, Pero en esto yerran los jóvenes tan a menudo y tan gravemente. Ellos, en cuya naturaleza está el n...
RAINER MARIA RILKE Liebe ist schwer. Liebhaben von Mensch zu Mensch: das ist vielleicht das Schwerste, was uns aufgegeb...
RAINER MARIA RILKE Mit deinen Augen, welche müde kaum
von der verbrauchten Schwelle sich befrein,
hebst du g...
RAINER MARIA RILKE think: the hero prolongs himself, even his falling
was only a pretext for being, his latest reb...
RAINER MARIA RILKE Ninguém o pode aconselhar ou ajudar, — ninguém.
Não há senão um caminho. Procure entrar ...
RAINER MARIA RILKE After Rilke's Letters
-- by John VanDyke Wilmerding II

this is my letter to a young ...
RAINER MARIA RILKE If you think your world isn’t poetic enough, or exciting enough to tell a story about, that’s no...
RAINER MARIA RILKE How they are all about, these gentlemen
In chamberlains' apparel, stocked and laced,
Like ...
RAINER MARIA RILKE Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even no...
RAINER MARIA RILKE You, God, who live next door--

If at times, through the long night, I trouble you
wi...
RAINER MARIA RILKE Destiny itself is like a wonderful wide tapestry in which every thread is guided by an unspeakable t...
RAINER MARIA RILKE A kind of memory that tells us
that what we're now striving for was
once
nearer and ...
RAINER MARIA RILKE O smile, going where? O upturned look:
new, warm, receding surge of the heart--;
alas, we ...
RAINER MARIA RILKE Were it possible for us to see further than our knowledge reaches, and yet a little way beyond the o...
RAINER MARIA RILKE If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those th...
RAINER MARIA RILKE Whenever one speaks of lonely people one takes too much for granted. One thinks people all know what...
RAINER MARIA RILKE And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far into the futu...
RAINER MARIA RILKE So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp.
RAINER MARIA RILKE I live my life in growing orbits which move out over this wondrous world, I am circling around God, ...
RAINER MARIA RILKE I think of you at any time of the day and my worried thoughts accompany all your steps. The slightes...
RAINER MARIA RILKE Wenn der Alltag dir arm erscheint, klage ihn nicht an – klage dich an, daß du nicht stark genug b...
RAINER MARIA RILKE Whoever has no house now, will never have one.
Whoever is alone will stay alone,
will si...
RAINER MARIA RILKE Yet, no matter how deeply I go down into myself, my God is dark, and like a webbing made of a hundre...
RAINER MARIA RILKE