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

“You darkness, that I come from,”

“Why should you want to give up a child's wise not-understanding in exchange for defensiveness and scorn, since not-understanding is, after all, a way of being alone, whereas defensiveness and scorn are a participation in precisely what, by these means, you want to separate yourself from.”

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

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

“Go into yourself. Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depths of your heart; confess to yourself whether you would have to die if you were forbidden to write.”

“I live not in dreams but in contemplation of a reality that is perhaps the future.”

“How happy is the little stone”

“I have been right, Basil, haven’t I, to take my love out of poetry, and to find my wife in Shakespeare’s plays? Lips that Shakespeare taught to speak have whispered their secret in my ear. I have had the arms of Rosalind around me, and kissed Juliet on the mouth.”

“I said, “I just want to know you and then disappear.”

“she stuck a bookmark in my heart and walked away”

“Your politics are so far right,”

“The concierge, I realized, had been standing beside me.”