More quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke

"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)"
"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."
"This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess."
"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."
"Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and greet each other."