Rainer Maria Rilke

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Birthdate December 4, 1875

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

.... there is only one solitude, and it is vast, heavy, difficult to bear, and almost everyone has hours when he would gladly exchange it for any kind of sociability, however trivial or cheap, for the tiniest outward agreement with the first person who comes along....

Tags: loneliness solitude

Therefore, dear Sir, love your solitude and try to sing out with the pain it causes you. For those who are near you are far away... and this shows that the space around you is beginning to grow vast.... be happy about your growth, in which of course you can't take anyone with you, and be gentle with those who stay behind; be confident and calm in front of them and don't torment them with your doubts and don't frighten them with your faith or joy, which they wouldn't be able to comprehend. Seek out some simple and true feeling of what you have in common with them, which doesn't necessarily have to alter when you yourself change again and again; when you see them, love life in a form that is not your own and be indulgent toward those who are growing old, who are afraid of the aloneness that you trust.

Tags: change growth loneliness relationships solitude

Why should you want to give up a child's wise not-understanding in exchange for defensiveness and scorn, since not-understanding is, after all, a way of being alone, whereas defensiveness and scorn are a participation in precisely what, by these means, you want to separate yourself from.

Tags: childlikeness defensiveness loneliness scorn wisdom

Why do you want to shut out of your life any uneasiness, any misery, any depression, since after all you don't know what work these conditions are doing inside you? Why do you want to persecute yourself with the question of where all this is coming from and where it is going? Since you know, after all, that you are in the midst of transitions and you wished for nothing so much as to change. If there is anything unhealthy in your reactions, just bear in mind that sickness is the means by which an organism frees itself from what is alien; so one must simply help it to be sick, to have its whole sickness and to break out with it, since that is the way it gets better.

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They all have tired mouths

and bright seamless souls.

And a longing (as for sin)

sometimes haunts their dreams.

They are almost all alike;

in God's gardens they keep still,

like many, many intervals

in his might and melody.

Only when they spread their wings

are they wakers of a wind:

as if God with his broad sculptor-

hands leafed through the pages

in the dark book of the beginning.

Tags: angels

Girls, there are poets who learn from you

to say, what you, in your aloneness, are;

and they learn through you to live distantness,

as the evenings through the great stars

become accustomed to eternity.

Tags: girls

-- a kind of memory that tells us

that what we're now striving for was

once

nearer and truer and attached to us

with infinite tenderness. Here all is

distance,

there it was breath. After the first

home

the second one seems draughty and

strangely sexed.

Tags: home memory striving

Here is the time for the sayable, here

is its home.

Speak and attest. More than ever

the things we can live with are falling

away,

and ousting them, filling their place,

a will with no image.

Will beneath crusts which readily crack

whenever the act inside swells and

seeks new borders.

Tags: home sayable speak words

So it's back once more, back up the slope.

Why do they always ruin my rope

with their cuts?

I felt so ready the other day,

Had a real foretaste of eternity

In my guts.

Spoonfeeding me yet another sip

from life's cup.

I don't want it, won't take any more of it.

Let me throw up.

Life is medium rare and good, I see,

And the world full of soup and bread,

But it won't pass into the blood for me,

Just goes to my head.

It makes me ill, though others it feeds;

Do see that I must deny it!

For a thousand years from now at least

I'm keeping a diet.

Tags: food pretty suicide

If we surrendered to earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees.

Tags: environment nature

Earth, my dearest, oh believe me, you no longer need your springtimes to win me over...Unspeakably, I have belonged to you, from the flush.

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