Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters To A Young Poet

Quotes

• “Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and coura...”
• “only someone who is ready for everything, who doesn't exclude any experience, even the most incomprehensible, will live ...”
• “Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a stren...”
• “If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth...”
• “Why don't you think of [God] as the one who is coming, who has been approaching from all eternity... the ultimate fruit ...”