Quotations.

This blog was created to archive favorite quotes from current and past reads, but anyone is more than welcome to make submissions. Life becomes chaotic when school is in session, but I will try to maintain daily activity.

November 24, 2011 12:47 pm
"We have no reason to mistrust our world, for it is not against us."

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Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet (Trans. by Joan M. Burnham)
November 1, 2011 7:13 pm
"Why do you want to persecute yourself with the question of where everything comes from and where it is headed?"

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Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet (Trans. by Joan M. Burnham)
October 30, 2011 2:32 pm
October 29, 2011 4:12 pm
October 28, 2011 2:39 pm
October 27, 2011 2:35 pm
October 26, 2011 2:23 pm
"Do not allow yourself to be confused in your aloneness by the something within you that wishes to be released from it."

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Rainer Maria Rilke, Letter to a Young Poet (Trans. by Joan M. Burnham)
October 25, 2011 3:23 pm
"Allow life to happen to you. Believe me, life is right in all cases."

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Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet (Trans. by Joan M. Burnham)
October 24, 2011 2:11 pm
"It is as though fear has caused something to be lifted out of the riverbed of limitless possibilities to a fallow stretch of shore where nothing happens."

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Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet (Trans. by Joan M. Burnham)
October 23, 2011 2:51 pm
"One could easily make us believe that nothing happened; and yet we have been changed, as a house is changed when a guest has entered it. We cannot say who came; we shall perhaps never know."

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Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet (Trans. by Joan M. Burnham)