Rainer Maria Rilke Archives - The Final Paradox

Let Life Happen to You

You must realize that something is happening to you, that life has not forgotten you,…

Extinguish my eyes, I’ll go on seeing you.
Seal my ears, I’ll go on hearing…

Who turned us thus around, so we,
no matter what, have the pose
of one…

Works of art are of an infinite solitude, and no means of approach is so…

You are looking outside, and that is what you should most avoid right now. No…

I can imagine someone copying out how Felix Arvers died. It was in a hospital.…

A human compassion, a sense of brotherliness, is certainly not alien to me. … But…

O mother: you who are without an equal, who stood before all this silence, long…

Full of the living burden of his great knowledge, he looked into the faces of…

I want to put flowers in your hair. But what flowers? There are none with…