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 Quote

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 Quote

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 Quote

I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me..
- Rainer Maria Rilke Quote

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 Quote

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 Quote

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 Quote

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 Quote

Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
- Rainer Maria Rilke Quote

More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
- Rainer Maria Rilke Quote

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 Quote

One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
- Rainer Maria Rilke Quote

Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
- Rainer Maria Rilke Quote

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 Quote

The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
- Rainer Maria Rilke Quote

The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
- Rainer Maria Rilke Quote

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
- Rainer Maria Rilke Quote

There are quantities of human faces, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
- Rainer Maria Rilke Quote

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.
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This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.
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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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