Friedrich Holderlin Professions : Poet Born : March 20, 1770 Died : June 7, 1843 Browse All Authors Top 6 quotes by Friedrich Holderlin What has always made a Hell on earth has been that man has tried to make it his Heaven. Friedrich Holderlin earth men heaven In life learn art, in the artwork learn life. If you see the one correctly you see the other also. Friedrich Holderlin artwork ifs art 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 humans country way I am mortal, born to love and to suffer. Friedrich Holderlin born mortals suffering I was raised by the song Of the murmuring grove And loving I learned Among Flowers. Friedrich Holderlin flower tree song 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 Similar Authors Abdellatif Laabi poet Ihara Saikaku poet Abram Joseph Ryan poet Ingeborg Bachmann poet Izumi Shikibu poet Bion of Smyrna poet All Authors
