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It would be good to give much thought, before
you try to find words for something so lost,
for tho...
poem by Rainer Maria Rilke
But fear of the inexplicable has not alone impoverished
the existence of the individual; the relati...
poem by Rainer Maria Rilke
My eyes already touch the sunny hill.
going far beyond the road I have begun,
So we are grasped by...
poem by Rainer Maria Rilke
Auf die Hände küßt die Achtung,
Freundschaft auf die offne Stirn,
Auf die Wange Wohlgefallen,
...
poem by Franz Grillparzer
Who says that all must vanish?
Who knows, perhaps the flight
of the bird you wound remains,
and p...
poem by Rainer Maria Rilke
Ornamental clouds
compose an evening love song;
a road leaves evasively.
The new moon begins

a...
poem by Rainer Maria Rilke
Suddenly, from all the green around you,
something-you don't know what-has disappeared;
you feel i...
poem by Rainer Maria Rilke
There is a stubble field on which a black rain falls.
There is a tree which, brown, stands lonely h...
poem by Georg Trakl
There is a land where all is pure,
And this land is called
The land of death.
Here nothing is pur...
poem by Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Schon bin ich müd zu reisen,
Wär's doch damit am Rand,
Vor Hören und vor Sehen
Vergeht mir der...
poem by Franz Grillparzer
Put out my eyes, and I can see you still,
Slam my ears to, and I can hear you yet;
And without any...
poem by Rainer Maria Rilke
Here in this land no one gets ridicule
but he who tells the truth. He then must stand
defenseless ...
poem by Karl Kraus
Your little sister

Has tossed her

Untied hair forward

Like a living veil,

Like a fragra...
poem by Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Berlin, 22 September 1916.
On 17 September one of our
submarines sank a fully
loaded enemy tro...
poem by Karl Kraus
We cannot know his legendary head
with eyes like ripening fruit. And yet his torso
is still suffus...
poem by Rainer Maria Rilke
Dreamless sleep - the dusky Eagles
nightlong rush about my head,
man's golden image drowned
in ti...
poem by Georg Trakl
This talk of merger gets me upset –
I care for no Austro-German reunion.
With Germany I have no ...
poem by Karl Kraus
Depth must be hidden. Where? On the surface....
quote by Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time ...
quote by Karl Kraus
That flaw of yours, that vent - I love it, dear;
it’s part of you
and ranks with me among your ...
poem by Karl Kraus
The valley of dusk was filled

With a silver-grey fragrance, like the moon

Seeping through cl...
poem by Hugo von Hofmannsthal
To grow mature is to separate more distinctly, to connect more closely....
quote by Hugo von Hofmannsthal
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultima...
quote by Rainer Maria Rilke
More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed....
quote by Rainer Maria Rilke
Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life....
quote by Karl Kraus
Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of exist...
quote by Karl Kraus
Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots....
quote by Karl Kraus
Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot ex...
quote by Karl Kraus
First, to be able to love, then to learn that body and spirit are one....
quote by Hugo von Hofmannsthal
A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've bee...
quote by Rainer Maria Rilke
All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one...
quote by Rainer Maria Rilke
All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood....
quote by Rainer Maria Rilke
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call ...
quote by Rainer Maria Rilke
Before passing different laws for different people, I'd relinquish myself unto you as your slave....
quote by Franz Grillparzer
There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son....
quote by Franz Grillparzer
A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants....
quote by Karl Kraus
Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you ...
quote by Franz Grillparzer
Ideas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to...
quote by Franz Grillparzer
I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am....
quote by Karl Kraus
Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave....
quote by Karl Kraus
Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun....
quote by Franz Grillparzer
All art is erotic....
quote by Gustav Klimt
To restrict the artist is a crime. It is to murder germinating life....
quote by Egon Schiele
A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful....
quote by Karl Kraus
Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess....
quote by Karl Kraus
Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at ...
quote by Franz Grillparzer
Although even when I am being idle I have plenty of food for thought both early and late - thoughts ...
quote by Gustav Klimt
Everything is dead while it lives....
quote by Egon Schiele
Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal....
quote by Egon Schiele
Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack....
quote by Rainer Maria Rilke
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