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Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes

«There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult»
«The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.»
«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.»
«Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions»
«There are quantities of human faces, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.»
«Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.»
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke | Keywords: distant
«Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, she would never have been able to find these words.»
«If your everyday life seems poor, don't blame it; blame yourself; admit to yourself that you are not enough of a poet to call forth its riches; because for the creator there is no poverty and no indifferent place.»
«Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day. Letters to a Young Poet»
«I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other»

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