The Poet: Rainer Maria Rilke"Sonnets to Orpheus, Part One, IV"

"Sonnets to Orpheus, Part One, IV" "You who let yourselves feel: enter the breathing that is more than your own.…

The Poet: Rainer Maria Rilke, "I Want A Lot"

"You see, I want a lot. Perhaps I want everything: the darkness that comes with every infinite fall and the shivering blaze …

The Poet: Rainer Maria Rilke, "Sunset"

"Sunset" “Slowly the west reaches for clothes of new colors which it passes to a row of ancient trees. You look, and so…

The Poet: Rainer Maria Rilke, "I Believe In All"

"I Believe In All" "I believe in all that has never yet been spoken. I want to free what waits within me so that w…

"Have Patience..."

"Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked room…

Rainer Maria Rilke, "We Need..."

“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, "All The Dragons..."

"How should we be able to forget those ancient myths that are at the beginning of all peoples, the myths about dragons that …

Rainer Maria Rilke, "The Ultimate Task..."

"Love is difficult. For one human being to love another human being:  that is perhaps the most difficult task that has been …

Rainer Maria Rilke, "And For The Rest..."

"It is always what I have already said: always the wish that you may find patience enough in yourself to endure, and simplic…

Rainer Maria Rilke, "Our Fate..."

"It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear …

Rainer Maria Rilke, "All The Dragons..."

"Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are  only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage…

Rainer Maria Rilke, "Moments of Tension..."

"It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear o…