Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies

Quotes

• “But suppose the endlessly dead were to wake in us some emblem:they might point to the catkins hangingfrom the empty haze...”
• “Isn’t it time that these most ancient sorrows of ours grew fruitful? Time that we tenderly loosed ourselves from the lov...”
• “Look: the trees exist; the houseswe dwell in stand there stalwartly. Only wepass by it all, like a rush of air.And every...”
• “For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terrorwhich we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so,because it sere...”
• “Every angel is terrifying.”