Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“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.”

“Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.”

“The only journey is the one within.”

“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.”

“Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.”

“And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.”

“The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.”