More quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke

"No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger."
"That’s love: Two lonely persons keep each other safe and touch each other and talk to each other."
"The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things."
"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."
"Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always."