Rainer Maria Rilke idézet

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„Derítsd ki, mi az oka annak, hogy írsz; nézd meg, hogy a szíved mélyére terjesztette-e a gyökereit; valld be magadnak, hogy belehalnál, ha megtiltanák az írást.”

„A szeretet ebből áll: két magányosság, amely találkozik, megvédi és üdvözli egymást.”

„A szerelemben csak ezt kell gyakorolnunk: elengedni egymást. Mert a kapaszkodás könnyen jön; nem kell megtanulnunk.”

„Mert az, hogy az egyik ember szeresse a másikat: az talán a legnehezebb minden feladatunk közül,az a végső, az utolsó próba és dolog, amelyre minden más dolog csak felkészülés.”

„A szem munkája elkészült. Most menj, és dolgozz a szívedben rekedt képeken.”

„Az akarat nem fontos, a panaszkodás és a hírnév semmit nem jelentenek. Nyitottság, türelem, befogadóképesség és a magány minden, ami számít.”

„Ezt két ember közötti kötelék legfelsőbb feladatának tartom: azt hogy mindegyik őrizze a másik magányát.”

„Az életemet egyre szélesedő körökben élem, amelyek az egész világra kiterjednek.”

„Újra tavasz van. A föld olyan, mint egy gyermek, aki kívülről tudja a verseket.”

„Az élet célja, hogy egyre nagyobb és nagyobb dolgok győzzék le.”

„Azokkal akarok lenni, akik ismernek titkos dolgokat, különben inkább egyedül lennék.”

„Rózsa, te tiszta ellentmondás, gyönyörüség,
Annyi temérdek pilla alatt senkisem alszik.”

„Hogyha elvesztlek, no mondd,
tudsz-e úgy elaludni többet,
hogy ne susogjak majd fölötted,
mint a széles hársfalomb?”

„Hogyha kiáltanék, ki hallana engem
az angyalok rendjéből? és ha netán a szivére
vonna hirtelen egyik: én belepusztulnék
az erősebb lét közelébe. Mert hisz a Szép nem más,
mint az iszonyu kezdete, mit még elviselünk,
s mennyire bámuljuk, mert megveti szenvtelenül, hogy
összetiporjon. Iszonyu minden angyal.”

„S csillagként ragyog fel majd felettem
a mosoly, mely rajtad bujdokolt.”

„Higgyetek egy olyan szeretetben, amely örökségként van elraktározva számotokra, és higgyetek abban, hogy ebben a szeretetben olyan nagy erő és áldás van, hogy olyan messzire utazhattok, amennyire csak akartok, anélkül, hogy ki kellene lépnetek belőle.”

“I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each should stand guard over the solitude of the other.”

“A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.”

“It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.”

“The demands which the difficult work of love makes upon our development are more than life-size, and as beginners we are not up to them.”

“You who never arrived
in my arms, Beloved, who were lost
from the start,
I don't even know what songs
would please you.”

“If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow”

“The necessary thing is after all but this; solitude, great inner solitude. Going into oneself for hours meeting no one - this one must be able to attain.”

“This is what the things can teach us: to fall, patiently to trust our heaviness. Even a bird has to do that before he can fly.”

“May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children.”

“Yet, no matter how deeply I go down into myself, my God is dark, and like a webbing made of a hundred roots that drink in silence.”

“Think… of the world you carry within you.”

“you are not too old
and it is not too late
to dive into your increasing depths
where life calmly gives out
it's own secret”

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

“But your solitude will be a support and a home for you, even in the midst of very unfamiliar circumstances, and from it you will find all your paths.”

“I am circling around God, around the ancient tower, and I have been circling for a thousand years, and I still don't know if I am a falcon, or a storm, or a great song.”

“I live not in dreams but in contemplation of a reality that is perhaps the future.”

“Every angel is terrifying.”

“Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.”

“If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable.”

“How can I keep my soul in me, so that it doesn't touch your soul? How can I raise it high enough, past you, to other things?”

“Everything terrible is something that needs our love.”

“I love the dark hours of my being.
My mind deepens into them.
There I can find, as in old letters,
the days of my life, already lived,
and held like a legend, and understood.”

“You must give birth to your images. They are the future waiting to be born. Fear not the strangeness you feel. The future must enter you long before it happens. Just wait for the birth, for the the hour of the new clarity.”

“A billion stars go spinning through the night,
glittering above your head,
But in you is the presence that will be
when all the stars are dead.”

“Keep growing quietly and seriously throughout your whole development; you cannot disturb it more rudely than by looking outward and expecting from outside replies to questions that only your inmost feeling in your most hushed hour can perhaps answer.”

“There are no classes in life for beginners: right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.”

“In the deepest hour of the night, confess to yourself that you would die if you were forbidden to write. And look deep into your heart where it spreads its roots, the answer, and ask yourself, must I write?”

“most people come to know only one corner of their room, one spot near the window, one narrow strip on which they keep walking back and forth.”

“And you should not let yourself be confused in your solitude by the fact that there is something in you that wants to move out of it.”