Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes

The only journey is the one within.

Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connexion with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.

The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned within you.

He was a poet and hated the approximate.

Death is the side of life which is turned away from us.

Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.

Everywhere I am folded, there I am a lie.

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.