German - Poet | December 4, 1875 - December 29, 1926
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
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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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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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog.
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There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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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.
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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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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.
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