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

“You, God, who live next door--”

“And if the world has ceased to hear you,”

““She who reconciles the ill-matched threads”

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

“It wasn't his, it wasn't my fault,”

“That’s love: Two lonely persons keep each other safe and touch each other and talk to each other.”

“Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,”

“Stephen kissed me in the spring,”

“I have drunken deep of joy,”

“You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear thorough the search.”

“Surprised by joy—impatient as the Wind”

“I stalk certain words... I catch them in mid-flight, as they buzz past, I trap them, clean them, peel them, I set myself in front of the dish, they have a crystalline texture to me, vibrant, ivory, vegetable, oily, like fruit, like algae, like agates, like olives... I stir them, I shake them, I drink them, I gulp them down, I mash them, I garnish them... I leave them in my poem like stalactites, like slivers of polished wood, like coals, like pickings from a shipwreck, gifts from the waves... Everything exists in the word.”