And when suddenly the god stopped her and, with anguish in his cry, uttered the words: โHe has turned roundโ โ she comprehended nothing and said softly: โWho?
Rainer Maria RilkeI hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
Rainer Maria RilkeMy life is not this steeply sloping hour, in which you see me hurrying. Much stands behind me; I stand before it like a tree; I am only one of my many mouths, and at that, the one that will be still the soonest. I am the rest between two notes, which are somehow always in discord because Deathโs note wants to climb overโ but in the dark interval, reconciled, they stay there trembling. And the song goes on, beautiful.
Rainer Maria RilkeI live not in dreams but in contemplation of a reality that is perhaps the future.
Rainer Maria Rilke