Do not be bewildered by the surfaces; in the depths all becomes law. Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 – 1926)
Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes – “Of all who move through the quiet houses, you are the quietest…”
You come and go. The doors swing closed ever more gently, almost without a shudder. Of all who move through the quiet houses, you are the quietest. We become so accustomed to you, we no longer look up when your shadow falls over the book we are reading and makes it glow. For all things sing you: at times we […]
Rainer Maria Rilke Quote – “This is how he grows: by being defeated, decisively…”
The Man Watching I can tell by the way the trees beat, after so many dull days, on my worried windowpanes that a storm is coming, and I hear the far-off fields say things I can’t bear without a friend, I can’t love without a sister. The storm, the shifter of shapes, drives on across the woods and across time, […]
Rainer Maria Rilke Quote – “Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses…”
Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love. Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 – 1926)
Rainer Maria Rilke Quote – “I beg you to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart…”
I beg you to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is […]