We need in love to practice only this: Letting each other go. For holding on Comes… — Rainer Maria Rilke

We need in love to practice only this: Letting each other go. For holding on Comes easily; we do not need to learn it.

In the original German

Wir haben, wo wir lieben, ja nur dies: Einander lassen; denn dass wir uns halten, Das fallt uns leicht und ist nicht erst zu lernen.

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Rilke, Rainer Maria. "Requiem for a Friend." The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by Stephen Mitchell. Vintage, 1989.
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Rilke, Rainer Maria. Requiem fur eine Freundin [Requiem for a Friend]. c. 1908.

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