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Rainer Maria Rilke
Age: 51 †
Born: 1875
Born: December 4
Died: 1926
Died: December 29
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René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke
René Maria Cäsar Rilke
Rainer Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke
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Rainer Maria Rielke
René Rilke
Rainer Mariyah Rilḳeh
Rainŏ Maria Rilkʻe
Reiner Marie Rilke
Rene Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke
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Those doves below, the ones utterly cared for, never endangered ones, cannot know tenderness.
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Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
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A billion stars go spinning through the night, / glittering above your head, / But in you is the presence that will be / when all the stars are dead.
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Who is there today who still cares about a well-finished death? No one. Even the rich, who could after all afford this luxury, are beginning to grow lazy and indifferent the desire to have a death of one's own is becoming more and more rare. In a short time it will be as rare as a life of one's own.
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Swells, Marina? we ocean, depths, Marina? we sky!
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Animals see the unobstructed world with their whole eyes. But our eyes, turned back upon themselves, encircle and seek to snare the world, setting traps for freedom.
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It wasn't his, it wasn't my fault, we both had nothing except patience, but Death has none. I saw him come (how meanly!) and I watched him as he took and took: none of it I could claim as mine.
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If my devils are to leave me, I'm afraid my angels will take flight as well.
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Fame — the aggregate of all the misunderstandings that collect around a new name.
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Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
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If we surrendered to earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees.
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Where I create, there I am true.
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If no one else, the dying must notice how unreal, how full of pretense, is all that we accomplish here, where nothing is allowed to be itself.
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Trees do not force their sap, nor does the flower push its bloom.
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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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I want to unfold. I don’t want to stay folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie.
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Your solitude will expand and become a place where you can live in the twilight, where the noise of other people passes, far in the distance.
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Joy is a marvelous increasing of what exists, a pure addition out of nothingness.
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Our deepest fears are like dragons, guarding our deepest treasure.
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Comfort me from wherever you are–alone, we are quickly worn out if I place my head on the road, let it seem softened by you. Could it be that even from afar we offer each other a gentle breath?
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