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

“Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and greet each other.”

“Be ahead of all parting, as though it already were”

“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.”

“His vision, from the constantly passing bars,”

“It was not in me It came and went”

“Someday you will name me,”

“A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.”

“Base words are uttered only by the base”

“THE SILENT PEOPLE”

“Keep your head up, he said, you are a lion, don’t forget that and neither will the sheep.”

“The most sublime labour of poetry is to give sense and passion to insensate things; and it is characteristic of children to take inanimate things in their hands and talk to them in play as if they were living persons... This philological-philosophical axiom proves to us that in the world's childhood men were by nature sublime poets...”

“She dealt her pretty words like Blades --”