emilee's review
Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations
by Rainer Maria Rilke
emilee's review
Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations by Rainer Maria Rilke
emilee's review
rating:
recommended for: careless love
i was reading this book on my quick one day flight to new hampshire to confront some haunting diffuculties of my own.
this was a tremendously anxious moment for me. i was immediately comforted by rilkes gentle manner in which he approached human relationships.i was definitely searching for some answers myslef. i want to share a passage that really opened up my eyes and heart and an endless row of doorways to walk through.
" All companionship can consist only in the strengthening of two neighboring solitudes. whereas everything that one is wont to call giving oneself by nature harmful to companionship: for when one person abandons himself, he is no longer anything, and when two people both give themselves up in order to come close to each other, there is no longer any ground beneath them and their being together is a cintinual falling."
"You are so young, so before all beginning, and I want to beg you, as much as I can, to be patient toward all that is unsolved i...more
this was a tremendously anxious moment for me. i was immediately comforted by rilkes gentle manner in which he approached human relationships.i was definitely searching for some answers myslef. i want to share a passage that really opened up my eyes and heart and an endless row of doorways to walk through.
" All companionship can consist only in the strengthening of two neighboring solitudes. whereas everything that one is wont to call giving oneself by nature harmful to companionship: for when one person abandons himself, he is no longer anything, and when two people both give themselves up in order to come close to each other, there is no longer any ground beneath them and their being together is a cintinual falling."
"You are so young, so before all beginning, and I want to beg you, as much as I can, to be patient toward all that is unsolved i...more
