Understand, I'll slip quietly away from the noisy crowd when I see the pale stars rising, blooming, over the oaks. I'll pursue solitary pathways through the pale twilit meadows with only this one dream: You come too.
Interpretation
The quote expresses a desire for shared solitude with a loved one amidst the chaos of life.
Rainer Maria Rilke's quote evokes a yearning for intimacy and connection in a tranquil setting, away from the distractions of the world. The imagery of slipping away from a noisy crowd to pursue quiet, solitary paths represents a longing for a deeper bond, where the speaker invites a beloved companion to join them on a journey of shared dreams and peaceful experiences.
In practice
This quote can be used in a wedding speech to highlight the beauty of shared dreams in a relationship.
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Verses are not, as people think, feelings (those one has early enough) -- they are experiences. For the sake of a verse one must see many cities, men, and things, one must know the animals feel how birds fly, and know the gesture with which the little flowers open in the morning.
a good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude
He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog.
The only journey is the one within.
And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been
It's hard to be the one always waiting. I mean, there's something to be said for the hero who charges off to battle, but when you get right down to it there's a whole story in who's left behind.
We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to try.
The most hurtful thing is not what comes from our adversaries, it's what comes from our friends.
To say good-bye is to deny separation; it is to say Today we play at going our own ways, but we'll see each other tomorrow. Men invented farewells because they somehow knew themselves to be immortal, even while seeing themselves as contingent and ephemeral.
When once married people begin to attack me with, 'Oh! you will think very differently, when you are married,' I can only say, 'No I shall not'; and then they say again, 'Yes you will,' and there is an end to it.
O men with sisters dear, O men with mothers and wives, It is not linen you 're wearing out, But human creatures' lives!
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