I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves.

— Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet* (1929)

I live my life in widening circles / that reach out across the world.

— Rainer Maria Rilke, 'Widening Circles' (1899)

If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those …

— Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet* (1929)

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet …

— Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet* (1929)

Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. / Just keep going. No feeling is final.

— Rainer Maria Rilke, 'Go to the Limits of Your Longing' (1903)

Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, …

— Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet* (1929)