Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God Quotes

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I live my life in growing orbits which move out over this wondrous world, I am circling around God, around ancient towers and i have been circling for a thousand years. And I still dont know if I am an eagle or a storm or a great song.

Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God

You, yesterday’s boy, to whom confusion came: Listen, lest you forget who you are. It was not pleasure you fell into. It was joy. You were called to be bridegroom, though the bride coming toward you is your shame. What chose you is the great desire...

Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God

You, God, who live next door-- If at times, through the long night, I trouble you with my urgent knocking-- this is why: I hear you breathe so seldom. I know you're all alone in that room. If you should be thirsty, there's no one to get you a glass o...

Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God

I live my life in widening circle That reach out across the world. I may not ever complete the last one, But I give myself to it. I circle around God, that primordial tower. I have been circling for thousands of years, And I still don't know: am I a ...

Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God

I am too alone in the world, and yet not alone enough to make every moment holy. I am too tiny in this world, and not tiny enough just to lie before you like a thing, shrewd and secretive. I want my own will, and I want simply to be with my will, as ...

Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God

I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world.

Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God

If we surrendered to earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees.

Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God

If we surrendered to earth’s intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees. Instead we entangle ourselves in knots of our own making and struggle, lonely and confused. So like children, we begin again... to fall, patiently to trust our heaviness...

Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God

I want my own will, and I want simply to be with my will, as it goes toward action. And in the silent, sometimes hardly moving times, when something is coming near, I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone... I want to unfold. I d...

Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God

How surely gravity's law, strong as an ocean current, takes hold of the smallest thing and pulls it toward the heart of the world. Each thing--- each stone, blossom, child--- is held in place. Only we, in our arrogance, push out beyond what we each b...

Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God

I want to unfold. I don’t want to be folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie.

Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God

I love the dark hours of my being. My mind deepens into them. There I can find, as in old letters, the days of my life, already lived, and held like a legend, and understood.

Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God

I am much too alone in this world, yet not alone enough

Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God