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

“Isn’t it time that these most ancient sorrows of ours”

“How can I keep my soul in me, so that”

“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.”

“And when suddenly”

“Quiet friend who has come so far,”

“The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.”

“when i sleep i remember days that never were. i dream a life i never saw and which i now see he never wanted...”

“The poet must always, in every instance, have the vibrant word... that by it's trenchancy can so wound my soul that it whimpers.... One must know and recognize not merely the direct but the secret power of the word; one must be able to give one's writing unexpected effects. It must have a hectic, anguished vehemence, so that it rushes past like a gust of air, and it must have a latent, roistering tenderness so that it creeps and steals one's mind; it must be able to ring out like a sea-shanty in a tremendous hour, in the time of the tempest, and it must be able to sigh like one who, in tearful mood, sobs in his inmost heart.”

“...if you do not even understand what words say, how can you expect to pass judgement on what words conceal?”

“Freud thought that a psychosis was a waking dream, and that poets were daydreamers too, but I wonder if the reverse is not as often true, and that madness is a fiction lived in like a rented house”

“Humanity i love you because you”