“All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke, Wartime Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke 1914-1921, 1940, tr. M.D. Herter Norton

About Rainer Maria Rilke

1875 – 1926

Austro-Bohemian poet, best known for 'Letters to a Young Poet' (written 1903–1908, published 1929) and 'Duino Elegies'.

“Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart, and try to love the questions themselves.”

“A good marriage is one in which each partner appoints the other to be the guardian of his solitude.”

“I could give you no advice but this: to go into yourself and to explore the depths where your life wells forth.”

“When public opinion changes, it is with the rapidity of thought.”

“If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking.”

“In the beginning was thought, and her name was Woman.”

“Once you change your philosophy, you change your thought pattern.”

“The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.”

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”