Rilke's most famous lines
The top 3 according to 4 votes from people: Who talks of victory? To endure is everything. · Every angel is terrifying. · Beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we can just barely endure.. (Updated Jan 3, 2021.)
"You must change your life", "Who talks of victory? To endure is everything" and the questions you should learn to love: the most quoted lines of Rainer Maria Rilke, from The Book of Hours to the Duino Elegies.
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Top 13
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Who talks of victory? To endure is everything.
Requiem for Wolf Graf von Kalckreuth (1908).
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Every angel is terrifying.
Duino Elegies, First Elegy (1923).
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Beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we can just barely endure.
Duino Elegies, First Elegy (1923).
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Rose, oh pure contradiction, delight of being no one's sleep under so many lids.
His epitaph, chosen by him in 1925.
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You must change your life.
Poem "Archaic Torso of Apollo", New Poems (1908).
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…to be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves…
Letters to a Young Poet (letter of 1903).
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Ah, in my wild heart, homeless, eternity spends the night.
Poem "Strange word" (Poems 1910-1926).
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That is longing: to dwell in the surge and have no home in time.
In Celebration of Myself (1899).
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For poverty is a great radiance from within.
The Book of Hours, "The Book of Poverty and Death" (1903).
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O Lord, give each of us our own death.
The Book of Hours, "The Book of Poverty and Death" (1903).
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There are many people, but even more faces, for each person has several.
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (1910).
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When poor people are thinking, one should not disturb them. Perhaps it will come to them after all.
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (1910).
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Somewhere the flower of parting blooms and endlessly scatters its pollen, which we breathe.
Poem "Somewhere the flower of parting blooms" (1924).
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