Quotes About Rilke

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

Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror," Rilke wrote. Nearly

fragments of a conversation she had left a little earlier (on Rilke, not Rilke's poetry but Rilke the man, who refused to be psychoanalyzed for fear of purging his genius);

unser Rilke-Herz - ehe der Clown kräht - haben wir es dreimal verleugnet.

Rilke used to say that no poet would mind going to gaol, since he would at least have time to explore the treasure house of his memory. In many respects Rilke was a prick.

Beauty is only the start of bearable terror.

Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest the more strongly you cultivate this belief the more will reality and the world go forth from it.

Wenn du der Träumer bist, Bin ich dein traum. Doch wenn du wachen willst, Bin ich dein Wille. Und werde mächtig aller Herrlichkeit Und ründe mich wie eine sternenstille Über der wunderlichen Stadt der Zeit

Works of art are of an infinite loneliness," Rilke had written.

Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves ... Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point it, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps, then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.

El amor no puede ser enjaulado. El amor, para retomar una espléndida imagen que Rainer Maria Rilke utiliza en una de sus cartas, necesita moverse libremente, necesita una mano abierta que le permita, sin obstáculos, detenerse o escapar. Apretar los dedos para inmovilizarlo significa convertir la mano en un ataúd. Porque poseer quiere decir matar.