Quotes from Rainer Maria Rilke

They, who passed away long ago, still exist in us, as predisposition, as burden upon our fate, as murmuring blood, and as gesture that rises up from the depths of time.

Music: breathing of statues. Perhaps: silence of paintings. You language where all language ends. You time standing vertically on the motion of mortal hearts.

I have patience for centuries in me and will live as though my time were very big.

The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.

Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

The highest form of love is to be the protector of another person's solitude.

We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it.

Embrace your solitude and love it. Endure the pain it causes, and try to sing out with it. For those near to you are distant.

I am so glad you are here. It helps me realize how beautiful my world is.

You darkness, that I come from, I love you more than all the fires that fence in the world.

To be in circumstances that are working upon us, that from time to time place us in front of great natural Things - that is all we need.

Yet everything that touches us, me and you, takes us together like a violin's bow, which draws one voice out of two separate strings.

I want to love the things as no one has thought to love them.

Look, we don't love like flowers with only one season behind us; when we love, a sap older than memory rises in our arms.

What happens most deeply inside you is worthy of your whole love.

To be loved means to be consumed. To love is to give light with inexhaustible oil. To be loved is to pass away, to love is to endure.

What is happening on your innermost self is worthy of your entire love.

Go on loving what is good, simple, and ordinary.

In one creative thought a thousand forgotten nights of love revive, filling it with sublimity and exaltation.

Be patient with all that is unsolved in your life. Learn to love the questions themselves, until some distant day, without your knowing, you will have lived into the answers.

If we surrendered to earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees.

Trees do not force their sap, nor does the flower push its bloom.

This is what the things can teach us: to fall, patiently to trust our heaviness. Even a bird has to do that before he can fly.

The flower bends when the wind wants it to, and you must become like that-that is, filled with deep # trust .