Quotes From "Rilkes Book Of Hours: Love Poems To God" By Rainer Maria Rilke

You, God, who live next door-- If at times, through the long night, I trouble youwith 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 oneto get you a glass of water. I wait listening, always. Just give me a sign! I'm right here.. Sen komşu tanrı, Uzun geceler bazen, Kapına vura vura uyandırıyorsam seni Solumanı seyrek duyduğumdandır.. Bilirim, yalnızsın odanda. Sana birşey gerekse kimse yok, Bir yudum su versin aradığında. Hep dinlerim, yeter ki bir ses edin, Öyle yakınım sana.. Rainer Maria Rilke

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 falcon, A storm, or a great song? [I, 2] Rainer Maria Rilke

I am too alone in the world, and yet not alone enoughto make every moment holy. I am too tiny in this world, and not tiny enoughjust 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 it goes toward action;and in those quiet, sometimes hardly moving times, when something is coming near, I want to be with those who know secret thingsor else alone. I want to be a mirror for your whole body, and I never want to be blind, or to be too oldto hold up your heavy and swaying picture. I want to unfold. I don’t want to stay folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie.and I want my grasp of things to betrue before you. I want to describe myselflike a painting that I looked atclosely for a long time, like a saying that I finally understood, like the pitcher I use every day, like the face of my mother, like a shipthat carried methrough the wildest storm of all. . Rainer Maria Rilke

If we surrenderedto earth’s intelligencewe could rise up rooted, like trees. Instead we entangle ourselvesin knots of our own makingand struggle, lonely and confused. So like children, we begin again...to fall, patiently to trust our heaviness. Even a bird has to do thatbefore he can fly. Rainer Maria Rilke

I want my own will, and I wantsimply 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 knowsecret things or else alone... I want to unfold. I don’t want to be folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie. Rainer Maria Rilke

How surely gravity's law, strong as an ocean current, takes hold of the smallest thingand 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 belong tofor some empty freedom. If we surrenderedto earth's intelligencewe could rise up rooted, like trees. Instead we entangle ourselvesin knots of our own makingand struggle, lonely and confused. So like children, we begin againto learn from the things, because they are in God's heart;they have never left him. This is what the things can teach us:to fall, patiently to trust our heaviness. Even a bird has to do thatbefore he can fly. Rainer Maria Rilke

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. Now all flesh bares itself to you. On pious images pale cheeksblush with a strange fire. Your senses uncoil like snakesawakened by the beat of the tambourine. Then suddenly you’re left all alonewith your body that can’t love youand your will that can’t save you. But now, like a whispering in dark streets, rumors of God run through your dark blood. . Rainer Maria Rilke

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. Rainer Maria Rilke

I am much too alone in this world, yet not alone enough. Rainer Maria Rilke

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. Rainer Maria Rilke