Quotes By Rainer Maria Rilke

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.

Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.

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

Truly to sing, that is a different breath.

Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.

Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.