“Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart, and try to love the questions themselves.”
Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
1875 – 1926
Austro-Bohemian poet, best known for 'Letters to a Young Poet' (written 1903–1908, published 1929) and 'Duino Elegies'.
“And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now.”
“Works of art are of an infinite solitude, and no means of approach is so useless as criticism.”
“Young people, who are beginners in everything, cannot yet know love: they have to learn it.”
“Everything that makes more of you than you have ever been, even in your best hours, is right.”
“Everything you can think of as you face your childhood, is good.”
“Is it possible to believe we could have a god without making use of him?”
“The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned within you.”
“They more adeptly bend the willow's branches who have experience of the willow's roots.”
“Slowly the evening changes into the clothes held for it by a row of ancient trees.”
“To him there seem to be a thousand bars, and out beyond these bars exists no world.”
“And as for the rest, let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.”
