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

“It is always what I have already said: always the wish that you may find patience enough in yourself to endure, and simplicity enough to believe; that you may acquire more and more confidence in that which is difficult, and in your solitude among others. And for the rest, let life happen to you. Believe me: life is right, in any case.”

“I am much too alone in this world, yet not alone enough.”

“It was not in me It came and went”

“His vision, from the constantly passing bars,”

“How surely gravity's law,”

“How should we be able to forget those ancient myths that are at the beginning of all peoples, the myths about dragons that at the last moment turn into princesses; perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.”

“Because she—you hear her—she's calling,”

“She was broken, I think it’s because she loved too much and she was always blind to the fact that love too is sometimes broken.”

“Like the moon”

“To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.”

“I watch with envious eyes and mind, the single-souled who dare not feel”

“If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?”