#r. m. rilke
"When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its great wide sounds, cleanses me with its noise and imposes a rhythm upon everything in me that is bewildered and confused."
- Rilke letter to wife Clara, 1903
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"Think, dear sir, of the world you carry within you, and call this thinking what you will; whether it be remembering your own childhood or yearning toward your own future--only be attentive to that which rises up in you and set it above everything that you observe about you. What goes on in your innermost being is worthy of your whole love."
Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet, December 23rd, 1906
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Le sublime est un départ.
Quelque chose de nous qui au lieu
de nous suivre, prend son écart
et s'habitue aux cieux.
/ Rainer Maria Rilke
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“If, when you wake up in the morning, you can think of nothing but writing… then you are a writer.”
– Rainer Maria Rilke
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Fling the emptiness out of your arms
into the spaces we breathe; perhaps the birds
will feel the expanded air with more passionate flying.
- Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies, First Elegy
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i’m mrs. lonely
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from Rilke’s Book of Hours
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from I Live My Life by Rainer Maria Rilke
Text ID : I love the dark hours of my being in which my senses drop into the deep. I have found in them, as in old letters, my private life, that is already lived through, and become wide and powerful now, like legends. Then I know that there is room in me for a second huge and timeless life.
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Solang du Selbstgeworfnes fängst, ist alles
Geschicklichkeit und läßlicher Gewinn-;
erst wenn du plötzlich Fänger wirst des Balles,
den eine ewige Mit-Spielerin
dir zuwarf, deiner Mitte, in genau
gekonntem Schwung, in einem jener Bögen
aus Gottes großem Brücken-Bau:
erst dann ist Fangen-Können ein Vermögen,-
nicht deines, einer Welt.
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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
by rilke
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I live my life in widening circles
that reach out across the world.
I may not complete this last one
but I will give myself to it.
I circle around God, around the primordial tower.
I’ve been circling for thousands of years
and I still don’t know: am I a falcon,
a storm, or a great song?
Rainer Maria Rilke
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life these days; upsc prep.
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Rainer Maria Rilke. Die Sonette an Orpheus. Frederick Ungar Publishing, New York.
No publication date is listed, but this edition was probably published in the 1930s-1940s based on the other books the publisher lists in the dust jacket.
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It is our task to imprint this temporary, perishable earth into ourselves so deeply, so painfully and passionately, that its essence can rise again, “invisibly,” inside us.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
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"aşıyor bizi de kendi yüreğimiz"
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