Quotes by Rilke, Rainer Maria

Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it na >>

Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain. >>

All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion i >>

Quotations about Cities and City Life

There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear th >>

The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take t >>

The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are >>

Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria