Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one. Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us. Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems. Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further. The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing. The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens. The only journey is the one within. The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things. There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult. There are quantities of human faces, but there are many more faces, for each person has several. There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course. There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages. This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess. 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.
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