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Rainer Maria Rilke was born in Prague in 1875.
* He was an Austrian poet and writer.
* His most famous works include the Duino Elegies and the Sonnets to Orpheus.
* Rilke was a master of the sonnet form and his work is known for its beauty and lyricism.
* He was also a gifted translator and translated the work of many French and Italian poets.
* Rilke died in 1926 at the age of 51.
* His work continues to be read and admired by people all over the world.
* He is considered one of the most important poets of the 20th century.

only someone who is ready for everything, who doesn't exclude any experience, even the most incomprehensible, will live the relationship with another person as something alive and will himself sound the depths of his own being.

Rainer Maria Rilke

There are no classes in life for beginners: right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.

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For one human being to love another human being: that is perhaps the most difficult task that has been given to us, the ultimate, the final problem and proof, the work for which all other work is merely preparation.

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That’s love: Two lonely persons keep each other safe and touch each other and talk to each other.

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In the deepest hour of the night, confess to yourself that you would die if you were forbidden to write. And look deep into your heart where it spreads its roots, the answer, and ask yourself, must I write?

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For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terrorwhich we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so,because it serenely disdains to destroy us.Every angel is terrible.

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She who reconciles the ill-matched threadsOf her life, and weaves them gratefullyInto a single cloth – It’s she who drives the loudmouths from the hallAnd clears it for a different celebration.

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Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.

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I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world.

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Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.

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Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading.

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If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place.

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Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart; confess to yourself you would have to die if you were forbidden to write.

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