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«If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place.»
«Who if I cried out, would hear me among the angel's hierarchies?and even if one of them pressed me suddenly against his heart:I would be consumed in that overwhelming existenceFor beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror which we are still just able to endure.and we are so awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us.»
«One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.»
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«Truly to sing, that is a different breath.»
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
«Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves ... 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 it, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps, then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.»
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
«There is here no measuring with time, no year matters, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force it's sap and stands confident in the storms of Spring without the fear that after them may come no Summer. It does come. I learn it daily, learn it with pain to which I am grateful?»
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
«Whoever you are: some evening take a step out of your house, which you know so well. Enormous space is near.»
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
«There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.»
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
«I have never been aware before how many faces there are. There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.»
«He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog.»
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