{"author":"Rainer Maria Rilke","author_id":"Rainer+Maria+Rilke","total_quotes":265,"quotes":[{"text":"For our part, when we feel, we evaporate; ah, we breatheourselves out and away; with each new heartfirewe give off a fainter scent. True,  someone may tell us:you're in my blood, this room, Spring itselfis filled with you . . . To what end? He can't hold us,we vanish within him and around him.","author":"Rainer Maria Rilke","tags":["feeling"],"id":1656,"author_id":"Rainer+Maria+Rilke"},{"text":"Be ahead of all parting, as if it had already happened,like winter, which even now is passing.For beneath the winter is a winter so endlessthat to survive it at all is a triumph of the heart.Be forever dead in Eurydice, and climb back singing.Climb praising as you return to connection.Here among the disappearing, in the realm of the transient,be a ringing glass that shatters as it rings.Be. And, at the same time, know what it is not to be.The emptiness inside you allows you to vibratein full resonance with your world. Use it for once.To all that has run its course, and to the vast unsayablenumbers of beings abounding in Nature,add yourself gladly, and cancel the cost.","author":"Rainer Maria Rilke","tags":["anita-barrows","impermanence","in-praise-of-mortality","joanna-macy","mortality","praise"],"id":4926,"author_id":"Rainer+Maria+Rilke"},{"text":"Perhaps all the dragons of your life are princesses, who are only waiting for us to show a little beauty and courage. Perhaps at the very bottom every horror is something helpless, that wants help from us.","author":"Rainer Maria Rilke","tags":["dragons","kindness","letters-to-a-young-poet","rainer-maria-rilke"],"id":5165,"author_id":"Rainer+Maria+Rilke"},{"text":"If we surrenderedto earth's intelligencewe could rise up rooted, like trees.","author":"Rainer Maria Rilke","tags":["nature","poetry"],"id":5668,"author_id":"Rainer+Maria+Rilke"},{"text":"Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.","author":"Rainer Maria Rilke","tags":["faith","love","strength"],"id":6901,"author_id":"Rainer+Maria+Rilke"},{"text":"Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.","author":"Rainer Maria Rilke","tags":["love"],"id":7305,"author_id":"Rainer+Maria+Rilke"},{"text":"Now we wake up with our memoryand fix our gazes on that which was;whispering sweetness, which once coursed through us,sits silently beside us with loosened hair.","author":"Rainer Maria Rilke","tags":["love","memory"],"id":9794,"author_id":"Rainer+Maria+Rilke"},{"text":"We want it visible\tto showwhen even the most \tvisible joy\t\twill reveal itselfonly when we have\t\ttransformed it within.There’s nowhere, my love, the world can existexpect within.","author":"Rainer Maria Rilke","tags":["joy","love","poet","poetry"],"id":10393,"author_id":"Rainer+Maria+Rilke"},{"text":"If your love for […] wants to do something now, then its work and task is this: to catch up with what it has missed. For it has failed to see whither this person has gone, it has failed to accompany her in her broadest development, it has failed to spread itself out over the new distances this person embraces, and it hasn’t ceased looking for her at a certain point in her growth, it wants obstinately to hold fast to a definite beauty beyond which she has passed, instead of persevering, confident of new shared beauties to come.”—from letter to Paula Modersohn-Becker Bremen (February 12, 1902).","author":"Rainer Maria Rilke","tags":["beauty","rainer-maria-rilke"],"id":10539,"author_id":"Rainer+Maria+Rilke"},{"text":"Perhaps many things inside you have been transformed; perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while you were sad. The only sadnesses that are dangerous and unhealthy are the ones that we carry around in public in order to drown them out with the noise; like diseases that are treated superficially and foolishly, they just withdraw and after a short interval break out again all the more terribly; and gather inside us and are life, are life that is unlived, rejected, lost, life that we can die of.","author":"Rainer Maria Rilke","tags":["change","dangerous","depth","die","life","sadness","within"],"id":10704,"author_id":"Rainer+Maria+Rilke"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":265,"pages":27,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}