Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves.
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves.
Phenomenology
I live my life in widening circles / that reach out across the world.
I live my life in widening circles / that reach out across the world.
I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those...
If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable.
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not po...
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.
Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. / Just keep going. No feeling is final.
Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. / Just keep going. No feeling is final.
Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once...
Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage.
Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
Profile: Rainer Maria Rilke
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) was an Austrian-German poet whose work explored nature, solitude, and human existence. Writing in the early 20th century, Rilke articulated a sense of intimacy with the …