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Rainer Maria Rilke

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Rainer Maria Rilke was a Bohemian–Austrian poet and art critic. He is considered one of the most significant poets in the German language.


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Quote Left There is here no measuring with time, no year matters, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force it's sap and stands confident in the storms of Spring without the fear that after them may come no Summer. It does come. I learn it daily, learn it with pain to which I am grateful Quote Right
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Quote Left Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it , you will live along some distant day into your answers. Quote Right
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Quote Left Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further Quote Right
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Quote Left Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves ... Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point it, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps, then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer. Quote Right
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Quote Left Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers. Quote Right
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