Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes About Walking
-
Stand up during supper and walk outdoors, and keep on walking.
→ -
My eyes already touch the sunny hill. Going far ahead of the road I have begun. So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp; it has inner light, even from a distance- and charges us, even if we do not reach it, into something else, which, hardly sensing it, we already are; a gesture waves us on answering our own wave... but what we feel is the wind in our faces.
→ -
Look, lovers: almost separately they come towards us through the flowery grass and slowly; parting's so far from thought of, they indulge the extravagance of walking unembraced.
→ -
She followed slowly, taking a long time, As though there were some obstacles in the way; And yet: as though, once it was overcome, She would be beyond all walking, and would fly.
→ -
sometimes a man stands up during supper and walks outdoors, and keeps on walking, because of a church that stands somewhere in the East. And his children say blessings on him as if he were dead. And another man, who remains inside his own house, stays there, inside the dishes and in the glasses, so that his children have to go far out into the world toward that same church, which he forgot.
→ -
most people come to know only one corner of their room, one spot near the window, one narrow strip on which they keep walking back and forth.
→ -
I would like to step out of my heart and go walking beneath the enormous sky.
→
Related Authors
-
-
Heinrich Heine Poet -
Hermann Hesse Poet -
Friedrich Nietzsche Philologist -
Arthur Rimbaud Poet -
Erich Maria Remarque Author -
Paul Valery Poet -
Lou Andreas-Salomé Author -
Franz Kafka Writer -
Thomas Mann Novelist -
Georg Trakl Poet -
Auguste Rodin Sculptor -
Thomas Merton Writer -
Friedrich Holderlin Poet -
Hugo von Hofmannsthal Novelist -
Paul Celan Poet -
Stefan Zweig Novelist -
Charles Baudelaire Poet -
-
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Writer