Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean t…

Rainer Maria Rilke
343 citations
Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any complement and limit, but only life and reality: the female human being. ✨ Letters to a Young Poet. Book by Rainer Maria Rilke. Letter Seven (May 14, 1904), 1929.
Humanity Life Reading
27

More Author Quotes

The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned within you. ✨ 'Wendung' ('Turning Point'). Poem by Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by Stephen Mi … ▶
Right in the difficult we must have our joys, our happiness, our dreams: there against the depth of this background, they stand out, there for the first time we see how beautiful they are. ✨ Rainer M … ▶
Verses are not, as people think, feelings (those one has early enough) -- they are experiences. For the sake of a verse one must see many cities, men, and things, one must know the animals feel how b … ▶
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart. ✨ Rainer Maria Rilke, Albert Ernest Flemming (1986). Rainer Maria Rilke: Selected Poems, p.12, Psychology Press
As if no one had ever tried before, try to say what you see and feel and love and lose.

More Author Quotes

Most Cited Authors

The Best Quotes

Most Liked Authors

Curated Author Quotes