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Rainer Maria  Quotes
It was not in me It came and wentI wanted to hold it It was held by wine(I no longer know what it was)

—Rainer Maria

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HappinessPoetry
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His vision, from the constantly passing bars,has grown so weary that it cannot holdanything else. It seems to him there area thousand bars, and behind the bars, no world.As he paces in cramped circles, over...

—Rainer Maria

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

—Rainer Maria

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NatureSimplicity
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Were it possible for us to see further than our knowledge reaches, and yet a little way beyond the outworks of our divinings, perhaps we would endure our sadnesses with greater confidence than our joys....

—Rainer Maria

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EnduranceSadnessThe-Unknown
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All things want to float.

—Rainer Maria

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PoetryPoets
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At no other time (than autumn) does the earth let itself be inhaled in one smell, the ripe earth; in a smell that is in no way inferior to the smell of the sea, bitter...

—Rainer Maria

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AromaAutumnFall
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This, above all, ask yourself in the stillest hour of the night: must I write? Delve deep into yourself. And if this should be affirmative, if you may meet this question witha strong and simple...

—Rainer Maria

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Writing
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How could we forget those ancient myths that stand at the beginning of all races, the myths about dragons that at the last moment are transformed into princesses? Perhaps all the dragons in our lives...

—Rainer Maria

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BeautyCourage
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and children are still the way you were …as a child, sad and happy in just the same way and if you think of your childhood, you once again live among them, among the solitary...

—Rainer Maria

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

—Rainer Maria

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LonelinessSecret-KnowledgeSecrets
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[A]t bottom, and just in the deepest and most important things, we are unutterably alone, and for one person to be able to advise or even help another, a lot must happen, a lot must...

—Rainer Maria

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LonelinessSolitude
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O smile, going where? O upturned look:new, warm, receding surge of the heart–;alas, we are that surge. Does then the cosmic spacewe dissolve in taste of us? Do the angelsreclaim only what is theirs, their...

—Rainer Maria

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

—Rainer Maria

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Life
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It is always what I have already said: always the wish that you may find patience enough in yourself to endure, and simplicity enough to believe; that you may acquire more and more confidence in...

—Rainer Maria

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Poetry
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Don’t be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you; simply let it happen. Otherwise it will be too easy for you to look with blame… at your past, which naturally has a...

—Rainer Maria

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ChangeHardship
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Wishes are memories coming from our future!

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FutureMemoriesWishes
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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.

—Rainer Maria

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ReflectionSolitudeUnderstanding
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The only journey is the one within.

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IntrospectionJourneySelf-Discovery
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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...

—Rainer Maria

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Feeling
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It wasn’t his, it wasn’t my fault,we both had nothing except patience,but Death has none. I saw him come (how meanly!)and I watched him as he took and took:none of it I could claim as...

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Death
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How surely gravity’s law,strong as an ocean current,takes hold of the smallest thingand pulls it toward the heart of the world.Each thing—each stone, blossom, child—is held in place.Only we, in our arrogance,push out beyond what...

—Rainer Maria

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Poetry
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Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force its sap and stands confidence in the storms of spring without fear that after them may come no...

—Rainer Maria

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NatureTree
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Great sadnesses … they are the moments when something new has entered into us, something unknown; our feelings grow mute in shy perplexity, everything in us withdraws, a stillness comes, and the new, which no...

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Sadness
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Our age has built itself vast reservoirs of power / formless as the straining energy that it wrests from the earth.

—Rainer Maria

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Poetry
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It is necessary – and toward this point our development will move, little by little – that nothing alien happen to us, but only what has long been our own.

—Rainer Maria

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AlienationDevelopmentEmotion
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Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and greet each other.

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Beauty is only the start of bearable terror.

—Rainer Maria

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BeautyTerror
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Seele im RaumHier bin ich, hier bin ich, Entrungene,taumelnd.Wag ichs denn? Werf ich mich?Fähige waren schon vieldort, wo ich drängte. Nun woauch noch die Mindesten restlos Macht vollziehn,schweigend vor Meisterschaft —:Wag ichs denn ? Werf...

—Rainer Maria

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LoveSoul
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So it’s back once more, back up the slope.Why do they always ruin my ropewith their cuts?I felt so ready the other day,Had a real foretaste of eternityIn my guts.Spoonfeeding me yet another sipfrom life’s...

—Rainer Maria

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EmoFoodPretty
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there is only one solitude, and it is vast, heavy, difficult to bear, and almost everyone has hours when he would gladly exchange it for any kind of sociability, however trivial or cheap, for the...

—Rainer Maria

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LonelinessSolitude
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You are looking outside, and that is what you should most avoid right now. No one can advise or help you – no one. There is only one thing you should do. Go into yourself....

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ArtistArtist's-LifeCreating
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She who reconciles the ill-matched threadsOf her life, and weaves them gratefullyInto a single cloth – It’s she who drives the loudmouths from the hallAnd clears it for a different celebration.

—Rainer Maria

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BeautyLifePoetry
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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.

—Rainer Maria

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Poetry
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Oh hours of childhood,when behind each shape more than the past appearedand what streamed out before us was not the future.We felt our bodies growing and were at times impatient to be grown up, half...

—Rainer Maria

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ChangeChildhoodFourth-Elegy
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I have often wondered whether especially those days when we are forced to remain idle are not precisely the days spend in the most profound activity. Whether our actions themselves, even if they do not...

—Rainer Maria

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IdlenessLifeStillness
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Everything is gestation and then birthing. To let each impression and each embryo of a feeling come to completion in itself, in the dark, in the unsayable, the unconscious, beyond the reach of one’s own...

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BirthFeelingsIdeas
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The free animalhas its dying always behind itand God in front of it, and its wayis the eternal way, as the spring flowing.Never, not for a moment, do we havepure space before us, where the...

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AnimalsDeathReligion
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This advance (at first very much against the will of the outdistanced men) will transform the love experience, which is now filled with error, will change it from the ground up, and reshape it into...

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LoveSame-LoveUnity
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And when suddenlythe god stopped her and, with anguish in his cry,uttered the words: ‘He has turned round’ –she comprehended nothing and said softly: ‘Who?

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DeathForgettingMemory
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we want it visibleto showwhen even the most visible joywill reveal itselfonly when we havetransformed it within.there’s nowhere, my love, the world can existexpect within.

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JoyLovePoet
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And that is why it is so important to be solitary and attentive when one is sad: because the seemingly uneventful and motionless moment when our future steps into us is so much closer to...

—Rainer Maria

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PainSadnessSolitude
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I believe that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension that we find paralyzing because we no longer hear our surprised feelings living. Because we are alone with the alien thing that has entered...

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Sadness
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No, my life is not this precipitous hourthrough which you see me passing at a run.

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IdentityLifeNow
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Ist dir Trinken bitter, werde Wein.

—Rainer Maria

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Wine
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Extinguish my eyes, I’ll go on seeing you.Seal my ears, I’ll go on hearing you.And without feet I can make my way to you,without a mouth I can swear your name.Break off my arms, I’ll...

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ObsessionPoetry
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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.

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BondsFriendshipSolitude
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That is fundamentally the only courage which is demanded of us: to be brave in the face of the strangest, most singular and most inexplicable things that can befall us

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CourageGriefLife
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But because truly being here is so much; because everything here apparently needs us, this fleeting world, which in some strange way keeps calling to us. Us, the most fleeting of all. Once for each thing. Just...

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Purpose
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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.

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AlonenessSolitude
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Girls, there are poets who learn from youto say, what you, in your aloneness, are;and they learn through you to live distantness,as the evenings through the great starsbecome accustomed to eternity.

—Rainer Maria

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Girls
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