12 Quotes by Rilke

Angels often do now know whether they walk among the dead or living.

Who has not sat, afraid, before his own heart's curtain?

Praise, my dear one.Let us disappear into praising.Nothing belongs to us.

I don't want to talk to anyone, lest I squander your words' echo, which ripples like a shine over mine and lends their sound a richness.

For it is not inertia alonethat is responsible for human relationships repeatingthemselves from case to case, indescribably monotonous andunrenewed: it is shyness before any sort of new,unforeseeableexperience with which one does not think oneself able to cope.But only someone who is ready for everything, who excludes nothing, not even the most enigmatical, will live the relation to another as something alive.

For we, when we feel, evaporate: oh, webreathe ourselves out and away: from ember to ember,yielding us fainter fragrance.

Tolerating is the gift from God to women!

My looking ripens thingsand they come towards me, to meet and be met.

Lauschende Wolke über dem Wald.Wie wir sie lieben lernten,seit wir wissen, wie wunderbaldsie als weckender Regen pralltan die träumenden Ernten.