Rainer Maria Rilke was known for being one of the most influential poets of Austrian culture and universal literature, one of his most recognized works being ‘Letters to a Young Poet’.
Born in Prague, in the former Austro-Hungarian Empire, this poet’s life was not easy in his childhood, but he managed to overcome life thanks to his works. That’s why we bring a compilation with the best phrases of Rainer Maria Rilke about his works and his personal life.
1. God speaks to each of us as He makes us, then walks with us silently out of the night.
God is the inner voice that guides us where we should go.
2. Beauty is nothing more than the beginnings of terror, which we are still able to endure, and we are so impressed because we serenely disdain to annihilate ourselves.
A reminder that we tend to be blinded by beauty.
3. This is the miracle that happens to those who truly love: The more they give, the more they possess.
When we share, our blessings multiply.
4. Yes, all art is the result of having been in danger, of having lived an experience to the end, to the point where you can’t go any further.
His opinion on art and its origin.
5. Turn your wall into a stepping stone.
A tip to take our obstacles as motivations to be better.
6. Fame is the sum of the misunderstandings that gather around a man.
You can’t escape other people’s comments when you get fame.
7. There are many people in the world, but there are even more faces, since each one has several.
Don’t trust those you don’t know well, as they can hide terrible things.
8. Love consists of two solitudes that protect, limit and try to make each other happy.
Two people who are committed to supporting each other through thick and thin.
9. Love is rather an opportunity, a sublime motive, which is offered to each individual to mature and become something in themselves; to become a world, a whole world, for the love of another.
Love is an opportunity to grow and appreciate life in a different way.
10. Delve into yourself and, for hours and hours, not find anyone… This is what is important to know how to achieve.
Reaching a point where loneliness becomes a space for introspection.
11. Everyone who seeks you tempts you. And those who find you tie you to the gesture and the image.
People will always have something to say, both good and bad.
12. I, on the other hand, want to understand you as the earth understands you; With my maturation your kingdom matures.
A serious relationship needs both people to commit to growing.
13. The more you see, the more your own, the more personal, the more unique a life becomes.
Life is what we see of the world and want to do in it.
14. Reviews are letters to the public that no author has to open or read.
We should never let ourselves be carried away by the ill-intentioned criticism of others.
15. Believe that with your feelings and your work you are part of the most immense; The more strongly you cultivate that belief, the more reality and the world will depart from it.
Encouraging us to have more confidence in ourselves and work on our self-love.
16. Everything is blooming recklessly; If they were voices instead of colors, there would be an incredible scream in the heart of the night.
Nature can never be stopped, just like our will.
17. Dear friend: don’t you see how everything that happens is always a beginning? And starting, in itself, is always so beautiful!
Every day is a new beginning and the best thing is that it is never too late to do it.
18. Only those who do not exclude anything from their existence, not even what is enigmatic and mysterious, will be able to deeply feel their relationships with another being as something alive, and only they will be in a position to direct their own life by themselves.
To move forward, you have to have an open mind.
19. Loving is also good: loving is difficult.
Nothing that is really good is easy.
20. The goal of marriage is not to create a quick community by breaking down all boundaries; On the contrary, a good marriage is one in which each of the spouses designates the other as the guardian of their loneliness, and therefore shows each other the greatest possible trust.
Your opinion about what it means to be married.
21. Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child who knows poems.
Spring is a demonstration that we can be reborn after any storm.
22. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.
No goal is achieved overnight, it takes consistency and perseverance.
23. And now we believe in a long year that is given to us new, intact and full of things that have never been or existed.
Many things can change over the course of a year.
24. Once you accept the realization that even among the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful coexistence can grow side by side, if you manage to love the distance between them that makes it possible for each one to see the other whole. against the sky
We all need personal space and that is why distance does not mean that the relationships we build should be separated.
25. Man grows, flourishes and is constantly renewed in love, or dies.
The love of wanting a better life, a promising future.
26. No great work of art has been created without the artist knowing the danger.
Rilke considered danger to be the ‘secret ingredient’ behind art.
27. Make your ego porous.
The ego can close more doors for us than it can open for us.
28. If you think you can live without writing, don’t write
No real writer survives without creating something with his or her lyrics.
29. No feeling is final. Don’t let me get lost. Nearby is the country they call life. I know the reason for your seriousness.
Things eventually change because nothing is static in the world.
30. I live my life expanding the circle that extends throughout the world. I may never complete the last one, but I surrender to it.
Letting yourself go along the path you decided to take in life.
31. Check if writing is rooted in the depths of your heart, confess to yourself if you would die if you were forbidden to write. Above all, ask yourself in the quietest hour of the night: Should I write?
Valuable advice to motivate writers in their fight.
32. Only the sadness that is carried among the crowd so that it hides it is bad and dangerous.
It is never positive to hide emotions instead of facing them, because they will always come to take their toll.
33. To be an artist is: not to calculate, not to count, but to mature like the tree that does not press its sap, but remains calm and confident under the storms of spring, without fear that another summer may never come after it.
Which for Rilke means being a true artist, being connected to the soul.
34. If your daily life seems poor to you, don’t accuse it. Accuse yourself of not being poet enough to perceive its riches.
The way we see life helps or prevents us from enjoying it.
35. I have an interior that I ignored. That’s how it is from now on. I don’t know what’s going on.
It is always important to work to know ourselves.
36. Don’t be fooled by what appears on the surface. In the depths is where everything becomes law.
Appearances can be deceiving, that’s why we have to take the time to get to know a person in depth.
37. The highest form of love is to be the protector of another person’s loneliness.
His particular vision on love.
38. We find ourselves in a current where we must overcome the tide. Sadness is also a wave.
Bad situations are like the tide, we have to learn to surf them or we will drown in them.
39. We need, in love, to practice just this: letting ourselves go. Because holding on is easy; We don’t need to learn it.
A controlled love never goes very far.
40. Being open-minded, patient, receptive and lonely is everything.
Necessary qualities for all people.
41. Death is the side of life turned in a direction different from ours, not illuminated by us.
Death is just a state of life itself.
42. The person is not who they are during the last conversation you had with them, they are who they are throughout your relationship.
You can’t get to know someone in depth after just one talk.
43. One has to do something against fear when it takes possession of one.
Fear paralyzes us, only when we let it do so.
44. Only your smile remains like many stars on you, and soon on me too.
The smile, the clearest manifestation of happiness.
45. This means destiny: being in front and nothing more than always being in front.
Move forward and continue, no matter where you go.
46. ​​If what is close is so far away, it is because the breadth of your life has grown a lot and already reaches the stars.
An interesting way to see our growth in relation to others.
47. It seems to him that there are only thousands of bars and that behind them no world exists.
An expression of how frustration feels.
48. The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
A way to see that losing is not always bad.
49. Young people, who are beginners in everything, cannot yet know love: they have to learn it.
Love is different at each stage of life.
50. The future enters us, to transform within us, long before it happens.
The future is there and it is inevitable to reach it.
51. What we call destiny does not come to us from outside, but rather emerges from us.
The destination is what we want to achieve and we are willing to work to achieve it.
52. These are the words we hear vaguely: you, sent beyond your memory, go to the limits of your desire.
We need more words of motivation.
53. Perhaps the most terrible thing in the end is nothing more than the impotence asking for our help.
The despair of feeling like we can’t do anything.
54. The only journey is inside.
The trip that counts the most.
55. Our deepest fears are like dragons, guarding our deepest treasure.
A very beautiful and positive way to see fear.
56. Maybe all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are waiting to see us beautiful and brave for once.
A way to encourage ourselves to pursue our dreams.
57. Life is very treacherous, and everyone manages as best they can to keep horror, sadness and loneliness at bay. I do it with my books.
Everyone has their own way of escaping the pressures of routine.
58. Seek the depth of things; That’s where irony never manages to descend.
The only way to overcome ignorance is to understand things.
59. No thing is itself.
Nothing and no one is one thing.
60. We lead our lives so badly because we always arrive at the present unprepared, incapable and too distracted for everything.
A wake-up call to where we direct our attention.
61. Can you perhaps affirm that great and good desires and purposes did not mature in your heart then, and that you continue to live by even today?
In the midst of all things, you always have to make room to see the positive.
62. All emotions are pure they collect and lift you up, that emotion is impure, it encompasses only a part of your being and what it distorts.
It is people and their way of seeing things that truly distorts reality.
63. Believe that there is love saved for you as if it were an inheritance, and have faith that in that love there is so much strength and blessings that you can travel as far as you want without having to leave your home.
The greatest love we must seek is self-love.
64. However, everything that touches us, you and I, unites us like the bow of a violin, which brings out a voice from two separate strings.
The destiny of a couple who loves each other.
65. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the last, the last trial and test, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
Finding a good partner is an achievement that deserves to be recognized and celebrated.
66. We alone pass over all things like a change of winds. And everything comes together to silence us, half out of shame perhaps, and half out of unspeakable hope.
A lament towards the things we do not know how to appreciate.
67. The more silent, the more patient and sincere we know how to be in our sadness, the deeper and more resolutely the new enters us.
We always need time to heal.
68. I want to be either with those who know secret things or with no one.
Surround yourself with those who bring positive things into your life.
69. Let life happen to you.
Don’t resist the opportunities that come to you.
70. I have prayed for my childhood, and it has come back to me, and I feel that it is still as heavy as before, and that it has been of no use to grow up.
The wounds of our childhood stay with us for a long time.
71. In life there are no classes for beginners; They immediately demand the most difficult things from you.
I wish there was a kind of education for the difficulties that one must go through in life.
72. How can I hold my soul so that it doesn’t rub against yours?
That feeling of need when we love a person.
73. I learn to see. I don’t know why, everything penetrates me deeper, and it doesn’t remain where, until now, everything always ended.
Learning always leads us to look for the best path.
74. Be patient with everything that is unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign language.
A way to remind us that things have their time and place.
75. If you feel that your loneliness is great, be happy. (…) There is only one loneliness. It’s big and hard to bear.
Solitude does not need to be a gloomy space, but rather one of personal encounter.
76. Life is right in all cases.
Betting on continuing to live.
77. Ah, how good it is to be among people who read.
Reading makes us more open and curious beings.
78. If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of pain.
Wise advice on how to deal with anger.
79. The true homeland of man is childhood.
The only homeland to which we owe respect and loyalty.
80. Being in circumstances that affect us, that from time to time place us in front of great natural things, that is all we need.
Difficult times help us appreciate the good things we have.
