Rainer Maria Rilke

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We need in love to practice only this:
Letting each other go. For holding on
Comes easily; we do not need to learn it.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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Topic

Relationships Letting go

Author

Rainer Maria Rilke

Medium

Poem

Statement Type

Paradox

Language

German

Time

1909 1900s 20th century

Authentication Score 1

Original Citation

Rilke, Rainer Maria. Requiem fur eine Freundin [Requiem for a Friend]. c. 1908.

Current Citation

Rilke, Rainer Maria. "Requiem for a Friend." The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by Stephen Mitchell. Vintage, 1989.

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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Topic

Connecting with others

Author

Rainer Maria Rilke

Medium

Letter

Language

German

Time

1901 1900s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Rilke, Rainer Maria. Letter to Emanuel von Bodman. 17 Aug. 1901.

Current Citation

Rilke, Rainer Maria. Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910, translated by Jane B. Greene and M. D. Herter Norton. W. W. Norton & Company, 1969.

Love your solitude and bear with sweet-sounding lamentation the suffering it causes you.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Letters to a Young Poet

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Topic

Solitude

Author

Rainer Maria Rilke

Source

Letters to a Young Poet

Medium

Letter

Statement Type

Advice

Language

German

Time

1929 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Rilke, Rainer Maria. Letter to Franz Kappus. 16 July 1903.

Current Citation

Rilke, Rainer Maria. Letters to a Young Poet, translated by Charlie Louth. Penguin Classics, 2014.

Death is the side of life which is turned away from us.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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Topic

Mystery of death Death

Author

Rainer Maria Rilke

Medium

Letter

Language

German

Time

1925 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Rilke, Rainer Maria. Letter to Witold von Hulewicz. 13 Nov. 1925.

Current Citation

Rilke, Rainer Maria. Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1910-1926, translated by Jane Bannard Greene and M. D. Herter Norton. W. W. Norton & Company, 1969.

A work of art is good if it has grown out of necessity.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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Topic

Art

Author

Rainer Maria Rilke

Source

Letters to a Young Poet

Medium

Letter

Language

German

Time

1929 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Rilke, Rainer Maria. Letter to Franz Kappus. 17 Feb. 1903.

Current Citation

Rilke, Rainer Maria. Letters to a Young Poet, translated by Charlie Louth. Penguin Classics, 2014.

Who has not sat nervously before the stage curtain of his heart?

Rainer Maria Rilke

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Topic

Introspection Vulnerability Fear

Author

Rainer Maria Rilke

Medium

Poem

Language

German

Time

1923 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 1

Original Citation

Rilke, Rainer Maria. "Die vierte Elegie [Fourth Elegy]." Duineser Elegien [Duino Elegies]. Insel-Verlag, 1923.

Current Citation

Rilke, Rainer Maria. Duino Elegies, translated by David Young. W. W. Norton & Company, 2006.

A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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Topic

Marriage

Author

Rainer Maria Rilke

Medium

Letter

Language

German

Time

1901 1900s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Rilke, Rainer Maria. Letter to Emanuel von Bodman. 17 Aug. 1901.

Current Citation

Rilke, Rainer Maria. Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910, translated by Jane B. Greene and M. D. Herter Norton. W. W. Norton & Company, 1969.

I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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Topic

Relationships Solitude Independence

Author

Rainer Maria Rilke

Medium

Letter

Language

German

Time

1902 1900s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Rilke, Rainer Maria. Letter to Paula Modersohn-Becker. 12 Feb. 1902.

Current Citation

Rilke, Rainer Maria. Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910, translated by Jane B. Greene and M. D. Herter Norton. W. W. Norton & Company, 1969.

Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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Topic

Connecting with others Nature of love Love

Author

Rainer Maria Rilke

Source

Letters to a Young Poet

Medium

Letter

Language

German

Time

1929 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Rilke, Rainer Maria. Letter to Franz Kappus. 14 May 1904.

Current Citation

Rilke, Rainer Maria. Letters to a Young Poet, translated by Charlie Louth. Penguin Classics, 2014.

People have already had to rethink so many concepts of motion, and they will also gradually come to realize that what we call fate does not come into us from the outside, but emerges from us.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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Topic

Fate

Author

Rainer Maria Rilke

Source

Letters to a Young Poet

Medium

Letter

Language

German

Time

1929 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Rilke, Rainer Maria. Letter to Franz Kappus. 12 Aug. 1904.

Current Citation

Rilke, Rainer Maria. Letters to a Young Poet, translated by Charlie Louth. Penguin Classics, 2014.