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· <blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/6136/">Quotes by <em>Rilke, Rainer Maria</em></a></blockquote><br> From <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> ·

Rainer Maria Rilke (4 December 1875 29 December 1926) is generally considered the German language's greatest 20th century poet. Though he never found a consistent verse form, his haunting images tend to focus on the problems of Christianity in an age of disbelief, solitude, and profound anxiety. He is generally placed in the school of modernist poets, though his religious dilemmas may set him apart from some of his peers. · Can we improve this biography? Write us your version

"All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you."

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"The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things"

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"Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers."

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"Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always."

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"Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain."

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"For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation."

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"This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess."

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"The great renewal of the world will perhaps consist in this, that man and maid, freed of all false feelings and reluctances, will seek each other not as opposites, but as brother and sister, as neighbors, and will come together as human beings."

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"Physical pleasure is a sensual experience no different from pure seeing or the pure sensation with which a fine fruit fills the tongue; it is a great unending experience, which is given us, a knowing of the world, the fullness and the glory of all knowing. And not our acceptance of it is bad; the bad thing is that most people misuse and squander this experience and apply it as a stimulant at the tired spots of their lives and as distraction instead of a rallying toward exalted moments."

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

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