More quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke

"Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and greet each other."
"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."
"The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things."
"The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things."
"Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart; confess to yourself you would have to die if you were forbidden to write."