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

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

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

“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 live my life in widening circle”

“Art too is just a way of living.”

“It was not in me It came and went”

“New York! I say New York, let black blood flow into your blood.”

“Little world, full of scars and gashes, ripened with another's pain,”

“After all, my erstwhile dear,”

“Let our scars fall in love.”

“Songwriting and poetry are so commonly birthed from underdogs because one can make even the ugliest situations admirable, or more beautiful than the beautiful situations - they are the most graceful media in which the lines of society are distorted.”

“But words are things, and a small drop of ink,”