Friedrich Hölderlin Quotes

We were eager to have done and trusted to luck. - View Quote Details on We were eager to have done and trusted to luck.
What is the wisdom of a book compared with the wisdom of an angel? - View Quote Details on What is the wisdom of a book compared with the…
Now we were standing close to the summit’s rim, gazing out into the endless East. - View Quote Details on Now we were standing close to the summit’s rim, gazing…
The earth with yellow pears
And overgrown with roses wild
Upon the pond is bent,
And swans divine,
With kisses drunk
You drop your heads
In the sublimely sobering water.
But where, with winter come, am I
To find, alas, the floweres, and where
The sunshine
And the shadow of the world?
Cold the walls stand
And the wordless, in the wind
The weathercocks are rattling. - View Quote Details on The earth with yellow pears
And overgrown with roses wild…
You seek life, and a godly fire
Gushes and gleams for you out of the earth,
As, with shuddering long, you
Hurl yourself down to the flames of the Etna.
So by a queen’s wanton whim
Peals were dissolved in wine- heed her not!
What folly, poet, to cast your riches
Into that bright and bubbling cup!
Yet still are you holy to me, as the might of the earth
That bore you away, audaciously perishing!
And I would follow the hero into the depths
Did love not hold me. - View Quote Details on You seek life, and a godly fire
Gushes and gleams…
I call on Fate to give me back my soul. - View Quote Details on I call on Fate to give me back my soul.
What is all that men have done and thought over thousands of years, compared with one moment of love. - View Quote Details on What is all that men have done and thought over…
Like a poet man lives. - View Quote Details on Like a poet man lives.
This name is fake. I was never called Hölderlin, but Scardanelli! - View Quote Details on This name is fake. I was never called Hölderlin, but…