I think of you often, dear, and with such concentrated wishes that it really must help you in some way.
Interpretation
The quote expresses deep affection and the belief that love and positive thoughts can have a positive impact on the beloved.
In this quote, Rainer Maria Rilke conveys the idea that the act of thinking fondly about someone, coupled with concentrated wishes for their well-being, can be a source of strength and support for that person. It emphasizes the emotional connection and the unseen power of love and good intentions to influence someone's life, even from a distance.
In practice
In a heartfelt letter to a friend going through a tough time.
Spring has again returned. _x000D_ _x000D_ The Earth is like a child that knows many poems._x000D_ _x000D_ Many, O so many. For the hardship_x000D_ _x000D_ of such long learning she receives the prize._x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ Strict was her teacher. _x000D_ _x000D_ The white in the old man's beard pleases us._x000D_ _x000D_ Now, what to call green, to call blue,_x000D_ _x000D_ we dare to ask: She knows, She knows!
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
If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.
Trapped in silence, Marco traces apologies and adorations across Celia's body with his tongue. Mutely expressing all the things he cannot speak aloud. He finds other ways to tell her, his fingers leaving faint trails of ink in their wake. He savors every sound he elicits from her. The entire room trembles as they come together. And though there are a great many fragile objects contained within it, nothing breaks.
You will not enter paradise until you have faith. And you will not complete your faith until you love one another.
Here we stop. Upon the threshold of wedding nights stands an angel smiling, his finger on his lip.
The success of love is in the loving - it is not in the result of loving.
I was thinking that I should be content to kiss him until the break of day. Bertrand ran out of kisses too soon; desire made them superfluous in his eyes. They were only a stage on the road to pleasure, not something inexhaustible and self-sufficient, as Luc had revealed them to me.
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