Rainer Maria Rilke

"This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess."

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

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

"Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky."

"You darkness, that I come from,I love you more than all the firesthat fence in the world,for the fire makesa circle of light for everyone,and then no one outside learns of you.But the darkness pulls in everything:shapes and fires, animals and myself,how easily it gathers them! -powers and people -and it is possible a great energyis moving near me.I have faith in nights."

"It was not in me It came and wentI wanted to hold it It was held by wine(I no longer know what it was)"

"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."

"There are no classes in life for beginners: right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult."

"A billion stars go spinning through the night, / glittering above your head, / But in you is the presence that will be / when all the stars are dead."

"Extinguish my eyes, I'll go on seeing you.Seal my ears, I'll go on hearing you.And without feet I can make my way to you,without a mouth I can swear your name.Break off my arms, I'll take hold of youwith my heart as with a hand.Stop my heart, and my brain will start to beat.And if you consume my brain with fire,I'll feel you burn in every drop of my blood."

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

"Let everything happen to youBeauty and terrorJust keep goingNo feeling is final"

"Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always."

"But because truly being here is so much; because everything here apparently needs us, this fleeting world, which in some strange way keeps calling to us. Us, the most fleeting of all. Once for each thing. Just once; no more. And we too, just once. And never again. But to have been this once, completely, even if only once: to have been at one with the earth, seems beyond undoing."

"She who reconciles the ill-matched threadsOf her life, and weaves them gratefullyInto a single cloth – It’s she who drives the loudmouths from the hallAnd clears it for a different celebration."

"No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger."

"She who reconciles the ill-matched threadsOf her life, and weaves them gratefullyInto a single cloth – It’s she who drives the loudmouths from the hallAnd clears it for a different celebration."

"The only journey is the one within."

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

"Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other."