Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes From The Famous Poet

Let’s explore the most memorable collection of Rainer Maria Rilkes quotes, each offering a glimpse into the profound depths of his poetic vision.

Rainer Maria Rilke was a Bohemian-Austrian poet and novelist, born on December 4, 1875, in Prague, which was then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and is now in the Czech Republic.

He is widely recognized as one of the most lyrically intense German-language poets, with his work spanning both poetry and prose.

Rilke’s poetry is known for its deeply philosophical themes, exploring deep questions about life, death, love, and the human experience. His writing often give an insight into the complexities of the inner self and the search for meaning in a rapidly changing world.

Let these Rainer Maria Rilke words sink in as you read them, allowing their wisdom to settle deep within you.

Top 10 Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes

1. “The only journey is the one within.” — Rainer Maria Rilke 

   
2. “Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.” — Rainer Maria Rilke 

   

3. “I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.” — Rainer Maria Rilke
4. “And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been. ” — Rainer Maria Rilke

   

5. “Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.” — Rainer Maria Rilke

   

6. “The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.” — Rainer Maria Rilke
7. “The highest form of love is to be the protector of another person’s solitude.” — Rainer Maria Rilke

   

8. “Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.” — Rainer Maria Rilke
9. “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.” — Rainer Maria Rilke
10. “If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.” — Rainer Maria Rilke

Famous Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes

1. “Life – a sexually transmitted terminal condition.” — Rainer Maria Rilke
2. “I am so glad you are here. It helps me realize how beautiful my world is.” — Rainer Maria Rilke
3. “Go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows.” — Rainer Maria Rilke
4. “I want to unfold. Let no place in me hold itself closed, for where I am closed, I am false.” — Rainer Maria Rilke
5. “Perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while you were sad.” — Rainer Maria Rilke
6. “If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable.” — Rainer Maria Rilke
7. “Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Do not despair if the answers don’t come immediately. Some answers are only revealed with the passage of time.” — Rainer Maria Rilke
8. “Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.” — Rainer Maria Rilke
9. “Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.” — Rainer Maria Rilke

Best Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes

1. “Who speaks of conquering? To endure is everything.” — Rainer Maria Rilke
2. “Since I’ve learned to be silent, everything has come so much closer to me.” — Rainer Maria Rilke
3. “If we surrendered to earth’s intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees. ” — Rainer Maria Rilke
4. “Let everything happen to you Beauty and terror Just keep going No feeling is final.” — Rainer Maria Rilke
5. “There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.” — Rainer Maria Rilke
6. “We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it.” — Rainer Maria Rilke
7. “Where something becomes extremely difficult and unbearable, there we also stand always already quite near its transformation.” — Rainer Maria Rilke
8. “This is in the end the only kind of courage that is required of us: the courage to face the strangest, most unusual, most inexplicable experiences that can meet us.” — Rainer Maria Rilke

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