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

Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
Rainer Maria Rilke

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

Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.
Rainer Maria Rilke

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

The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
Rainer Maria Rilke

The only journey is the one within.
Rainer Maria Rilke

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
Rainer Maria Rilke

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

There are quantities of human faces, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
Rainer Maria Rilke

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

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

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.
Rainer Maria Rilke

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

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