Rilke Quotes

Rilke wrote: 'These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space...

It is clear enough that not every something can be elevated to the rank of a thing - otherwise every...

This gesture is one of the motifs of modernity's turn against the principle of imitating nature, tha...

The reason for the existence of the perfection conjured up in these fourteen lines is that it posses...

The aesthetic construct, and nothing else, has taught us to expose ourselves to a non-enslaving expe...

In his field, and with his means, Rilke carries out an operation that one could philosophically desc...

As we know, Rilke, under the influence of Auguste Rodin, whom he had assisted between 1905 and 1906 ...

In the midst of the ubiquitous dealings with prostituted signs, the thing-poem was capable of openin...

What the poet has to say to the torso of the supposed Apollo, however, is more than a note on an exc...

Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even no...

She who reconciles the ill-matched threadsOf her life, and weaves them gratefullyInto a single cloth...

Whoever you are, go out into the evening,leaving your room, of which you know every bit;your house i...

Destiny itself is like a wonderful wide tapestry in which every thread is guided by an unspeakable t...

Loving isn't merging, surrendering, uniting with the other. Rather, it's a kind of solitude; of prof...

If you think your world isn’t poetic enough, or exciting enough to tell a story about, that’s not be...

And you, Clara Westhoff, how simply and well you endured, lived through the experience, and made it ...

You, God, who live next door--If at times, through the long night, I trouble youwith my urgent knock...

How they are all about, these gentlemenIn chamberlains' apparel, stocked and laced,Like night around...

As Borges has taught us, all the books in the library are contemporary. Great poems are like granari...