Friedrich Holderlin Quotes

• What has always made a Hell on earth has been that man has tried to make it his Heaven.

  Friedrich Holderlin

  Men, Heaven, Earth

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• In life learn art, in the artwork learn life. If you see the one correctly you see the other also.

  Friedrich Holderlin

  Art, Artwork, Ifs

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• I am mortal, born to love and to suffer.

  Friedrich Holderlin

  Suffering, Born, Mortals

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• I was raised by the song Of the murmuring grove And loving I learned Among Flowers.

  Friedrich Holderlin

  Song, Flower, Tree

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• Being at one is god-like and good, but human, too human, the maniaWhich insists there is only the One, one country, one truth, and one way.

  Friedrich Holderlin

  Country, Way, Humans

  Friedrich Hölderlin (1990). “Hyperion and Selected Poems”, p.139, A&C Black

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• The earth with yellow pearsAnd overgrown with roses wildUpon the pond is bent,And swans divine,With kisses drunkYou drop your headsIn the sublimely sobering water.But where, with winter come, am ITo find, alas, the floweres, and whereThe sunshineAnd the shadow of the world?Cold the walls standAnd the wordless, in the windThe weathercocks are rattling.

  Friedrich Holderlin

  Wall, Kissing, Winter

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