Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes

All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Mind, Blood, Begin

He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Humble, Another, Matter

Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Spring, Child, Earth

Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Heart, Before, Falling

There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Life, Away, Difficult

More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Marriage, Bed, Four

It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Able, Violence, Beginning

There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Good, May, Pleasant

One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Fear, Once, Against

There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Old, Tell, Matter

Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Different, Sing, Truly

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Poet

Born: December 4, 1875

Died: December 29, 1926

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