Quotes About Rainer

Rose, oh pure contradiction, joy of being No-one's sleep under so many lids.

Yes — the springtime needed you. Often a star was waiting for you to notice it. (Ja, die Frühlinge brauchten dich wohl. Es muteten manche Stirme dir zu, dass du sie spürtest.)

Do not search now for the answers which cannot be given you because you could not live them. It is a matter of living everything. Live the questions now.

If it were possible for us to see further than our knowledge extends and out a little over the outworks of our surmising, perhaps we should then bear our sorrows with greater confidence than our joys.

Strange / to wish wishes no longer. / Strange / to see things / that seemed to / belong together / floating in every / direction.

Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.

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?

Praise, my dear one. Let us disappear into praising. Nothing belongs to us.

What keeps you from... living your life as a painful and lovely day in the history of a great pregnancy?

That is the principal thing: not to remain with the dream, with the intention, with the being in the mood, but always forcibly to convert it into all things.