“A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.” Rainer Maria Rilke
“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.” Rainer Maria Rilke
“Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.” Rainer Maria Rilke Brave
“For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.” Rainer Maria Rilke LoveWork
“Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.” Rainer Maria Rilke Love
“Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.” Rainer Maria Rilke Win
“If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.” Rainer Maria Rilke BlameLife
“Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.” Rainer Maria Rilke FeelGreatestLieStrongWork
“Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.” Rainer Maria Rilke Experience
“I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.” Rainer Maria Rilke HighOld
“All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.” Rainer Maria Rilke Emotion
“This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.” Rainer Maria Rilke LoveTime
“Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.” Rainer Maria Rilke Lie
“Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.” Rainer Maria Rilke
“The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.” Rainer Maria Rilke Future
“The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.” Rainer Maria Rilke Experience
“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.” Rainer Maria Rilke War
“It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.” Rainer Maria Rilke Good
“There are quantities of human faces, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.” Rainer Maria Rilke
“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.” Rainer Maria Rilke DogHumble
“Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.” Rainer Maria Rilke
“There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.” Rainer Maria Rilke Life
