Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes

But Now That So Much Is Changing, Is It Not Up To Us To Change? Could We Not Try To Evolve Just A Little, And Gradually Take Upon Ourselves Our Share In The Labour Of Love? We Have Been Spared All Of Its Toil, And So It Has Slipped In Among Our Amusements, As A Scrap Of Genuine Lace Will Occasionally Fall Into A Child's Toy-box, And Give Pleasure, And Cease To Give Pleasure, And At Lengthe Lie There Among Broken And Dismembered Things, Worse Than All The Rest. We Have Been Spoiled By Easy Gratification, Like All Dilettantes, And Are Held To Be Masters. But What If We Despised Out Successes? What If We Began To Learn, From The Very Start, The Labour Of Love That Has Always Been Done For Us? What If We Were To Go And Become Beginners, Now That So Much Is Changing?

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