Duino Elegies Quotes

#1. Like the curved pipe of a fountain, your arching boughs
drive the sap
downward and up again: and almost without awakening
it bursts out of sleep, into its sweetest achievement.
Like the god stepping into the swan.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#2. Think: the hero prolongs himself, even his falling
was only a pretext for being, his latest rebirth.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#3. 'The Duino Elegies' are notoriously cryptic, and part of the reason why I have always loved them is because they invite multiple readings over the course of a lifetime.

Dinaw Mengestu

#4. I hate bullshitters; you can never bullshit them.

Karina Halle

#5. It's much too late to save myself from falling.

Elton John

#6. We only pass everything by
like a transposition of air.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#7. I am a woman pretending to be a man, pretending to be this ship's first officer, pretending to be a pirate, pretending to be innocent of murder ... I begin to lose track of all the roles I am playing.

Mercedes Lackey

#8. It's simple - I love food. I am travelling all-year round, so I have the chance to eat every food possible, so I am really lucky with that.

Stanislas Wawrinka

#9. It took us three months to finish the arrangement of 'Thunderstruck.'

Luka Sulic