Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes - Page 4

May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children.

and children are still the way you were ...as a child, sad and happy in just the same way and if you think of your childhood, you once again live among them, among the solitary children, and the grownups are nothing, and their dignity has no value.

That is fundamentally the only courage which is demanded of us: to be brave in the face of the strangest, most singular and most inexplicable things that can befall us

Think... of the world which you carry within yourself... and set it above everything that you notice about you. Your inmost happening is worth your whole love, that is what you must somehow work at, and not loose too much time and too much courage in explaining your attitude to people.

Joy is a marvelous increasing of what exists, a pure addition out of nothingness.

Look, I am living. On what? Neither
childhood nor future
lessens . . . . Superabundant existence
wells in my heart.

Now I come to you full of future. And from habit we begin to live our past.

Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.

Wishes are memories coming from our future!

The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.

Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his conscious reflection, his progressive steps, mysterious even to himself, should enter so swiftly into the work that he is unable to recognize them in the moment of transition.