Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes

It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: german
  • Birth: December 4, 1875 - December 29, 1926

Topics

BeginningI AmViolenceBeginAct

A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organize it. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallized; it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

ReligionYouBeliefMatterDead

'Moby-Dick' really threw me. I read it when I was 14 and my best friends were books. It changed the way I looked at the world.

John Burnside

BestMeWorldFriendsWayChanged

The fact that maybe I had some success playing G'Kar doesn't guarantee me three years later that I can still do it, so I have to keep my senses alive and still be working on it.

Andreas Katsulas

SuccessMeI CanAliveThreeYears

Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive.

Stella Benson

FamilyBondStrangersAliveJokes

Ironically, when a bunch of very smart people are sitting around a table for hours trying to figure out whether they should do something, that tends to not necessarily lead to the best results.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

BestSmartPeopleTryingTableOut

Jacqueline Woodson's books are such a gift to parents and children for their poignant subtlety and lyricism and their willingness to let a reader dwell in the pangs of realization that we sometimes try to protect our children from.

Tracy K. Smith

ChildrenParentsGiftSometimesTry

Experience teaches that when the will and imagination are in conflict, the imagination usually wins. What we imagine may defeat our reason and make us slaves to what we taste, see, hear, smell, and feel in the mind's eye. The body is indeed the servant of the mind.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

ExperienceImaginationMindConflict

I loved everything about being ten, eleven, and twelve years old, and seem to make most of my heroines and heroes that age so I can reexperience all those pitfalls and wonderful discoveries. It helps me to figure out my own life when I write from that eleven year old place!

Deborah Wiles

LifeAgeMeLovedYearI Can

My life at the moment is a bit like my wardrobe. Organized chaos.

David Wenham

LifeMomentChaosMy LifeOrganized

I think about how best to live my grandmother's twin mantras that 'Life is not a dress rehearsal' and 'Life is not about what happens to you, but what you do with what happens to you.'

Chelsea Clinton

LifeLiveBestDressThinkYou

I would truly risk my life to keep doing what I love.

Brady Jandreau

LifeLoveMy LifeDoingRiskKeep

Drag will always be a dynamic and powerful art form, and it is my duty now to honor the artists who have come before me while continuing to pioneer my own path and history by being open to growth and change as a human and a drag superstar.

Aquaria

ChangeGrowthHistoryPathArtMe

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