More quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke

"The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things."
"I live not in dreams but in contemplation of a reality that is perhaps the future."
"There are no classes in life for beginners: right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult."
"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)"
"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."