Certainly. Here are some of the most profound and beautiful quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke, the Austrian-Bohemian poet known for his spiritual depth, existential insight, and lyrical brilliance.
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Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
(English)
1.
On Love and Growth
“For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks… the work for which all other work is but preparation.”
— Letters to a Young Poet
2.
On Living the Questions
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves… Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”
— Letters to a Young Poet
3.
On Solitude
“The only journey is the one within.”
4.
On Creating and Waiting
“Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror.
Just keep going. No feeling is final.”
— Duino Elegies, 10th Elegy
5.
On Death and Life
“Death is our friend, precisely because it brings us into absolute and passionate presence with all that is here, that is natural, that is love.”
6.
On Art and Expression
“Works of art are of an infinite loneliness and with nothing so little to be reached as with criticism.”
7.
On Being Seen
“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage.”
8.
On God and the Invisible
“I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.”
🌧️ Want a few
original German quotes
with translations? Here’s a sample:
🗣️ German:
“Du musst dein Leben ändern.”
(You must change your life.)
— Archaic Torso of Apollo
If you’d like more quotes in German, or quotes from a specific work (like Duino Elegies, Sonnets to Orpheus, or Letters to a Young Poet), I’d be glad to provide them.
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