Top 36 Quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke

There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.

And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.

Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.

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.

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.

Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.

The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.

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.

I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.

More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.