More quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke
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.
Letters to a Young Poet (1934)
Young people, who are beginners in everything, cannot yet know love: they have to learn it.
Letters to a Young Poet (1934)
The demands which the difficult work of love makes upon our development are more than life-size, and as beginners we are not up to them.
Letters to a Young Poet (1934)
Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.
Sunbeams : A Book of Quotations (1990)
I could give you no advice but this: to go into yourself and to explore the depths where your life wells forth.
Letters to a Young Poet (1934)
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