Poetry Quote by Rainer Maria Rilke — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and greet each other.”

“Why don't you think of [God] as the one who is coming, who has been approaching from all eternity... the ultimate fruit of a tree whose leaves we are.”

“I am too alone in the world, and yet not alone enough”

“This is the creature there has never been.”

“we want it visible”

“If we surrendered”

“The press of my foot to the earth springs a hundred affections,”

“I miss you, mourn for you, and walk the streets alone- often at night, beside, I fall asleep in tears, for your dear face, yet not one word comes back to me. If it is finished, tell me, and I will raise the lid to my box of Phantoms, and lay one more love in; but if it lives and beats still, still lives and beats for me, then say so, and I will strike the strings to one more strain of happiness before I die.”

“I swear that girl was born with a pen in her hand, the moon in her hair, and stars in her soul.”

“There is more and more I tell no one,”

“Forbidden things— my God, I’m drawn to them like a moth to a flame.”

“Pity me that the heart is slow to learn”