Category: Rainer Marie Rilke
“Wherever you are: some evening take a step out of your house, which you know so well. Enormous space is near.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
“How is it possible to live when the elements of this life are utterly incomprehensible to us? If we are continually inadequate in love, uncertain in decision and impotent in the face of death, how is it possible to exist?” -Rainer Maria Rilke, in a letter to Lotte Hepner, Letters on God and Letters to a Young Woman
“If we only arrange our life in accordance with the principle which tells us that we must always trust in the difficult, then what now appears to us as the most alien will become our most intimate and trusted experience. How could we forget those ancient myths that stand at the beginning of all races, the myth about dragons that at the last moment are transformed into princesses? Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage.” -Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves.” -Rainer Marie Rilke, Letter 4, Letters to a Young Poet
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