Quote of Rainer Maria Rilke: To be an artist means: not...
Biography - Rainer Maria Rilke:
Austrian poet. Acclaimed as an idiosyncratic and expressive poet, he is widely recognized as a significant writer in the German language.
Born: 1875 - Died: 1626
Place of birth: Czech Republic
Born: 1875 - Died: 1626
Place of birth: Czech Republic
To be an artist means: not to calculate and count; to grow and ripen like a tree which does not hurry the flow of its sap and stands at ease in the spring gales without fearing that no summer may follow.
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(French, German)
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Quotes for: artist
Whoever wants to know something about me - as an artist which alone is significant - they should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognise what I am and what I want.
Quotes for: tree
The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be miserable. A tree does not know itself to be miserable.
Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.
The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.
Quotes for: spring
As is the generation of leaves, so is that of humanity.
The wind scatters the leaves on the ground, but the live timber
Burgeons with leaves again in the season of spring returning.
So one generation of men will grow while another dies.
The wind scatters the leaves on the ground, but the live timber
Burgeons with leaves again in the season of spring returning.
So one generation of men will grow while another dies.
If a man cannot enjoy the return of spring, why should he be happy in a labour-saving Utopia? What will he do with the leisure that the machine will give him?
The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.
Quotes for: summer
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