the longer I live, the more necessary it seems to me to endure, to copy the whole dictation of existence to the end, for it might be that only the last sentence contains that small, perhaps inconspicuous word through which all laboriously learned and not understood orients itself toward glorious sense.
Rainer Maria RilkeIf, when you wake up in the morning, you can think of nothing but writing . . . then you are a writer.
Rainer Maria RilkeYoung people, who are beginners in everything, cannot yet know love: they have to learn it.
Rainer Maria RilkeYour life will still find its own paths from there, and that they may be good, rich, and wide is what I wish for you, more than I can say.
Rainer Maria Rilke