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

“It was not in me It came and went”

“Quiet friend who has come so far,”

“Let everything happen to you. Beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final”

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

“Every angel is terrifying.”

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

“I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above; those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love.”

“Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation's tears in shoulder blades.”

“Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafaring soul.”

“Pensive they sit, and roll their languid eyes.”

“Resolve, and thou art free.”

“Occasionally,”