“Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.”

“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)

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

— Rainer Maria Rilke, 'I Am Too Alone in the World' (1903)

“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)