Rainer Maria Rilke

And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been.

Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.

He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog.

Truly to sing, that is a different breath.

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

All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.

It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.

No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.

It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.

Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.

The only journey is the one within.

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.