Top 26 Friedrich Holderlin Quotes
#1. Why do you like me more when I was prouder and wilder, more full of words, yet emptier?
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#3. Wir sind nichts; was wir suchen ist alles. (We are nothing; what we search for is everything.)
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#4. It was not delight, not wonder that arose among us, it was the peace of heaven. A thousand times have I said it to her and to myself: the most beautiful is also the most sacred. And such was everything in her. Like her singing, even so was her life.
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#5. Close and difficult to realize is the god, but where danger abounds, grows what saves.
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#6. Eagles live in the darkness,
And the sons of the Alps
Cross over the abyss without fear
On lightly-built bridges.
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Growing weak on the separate mountains
Then give us calm waters;
Give us wings, and loyal minds
To cross over and return.
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#7. In life learn art, in the artwork learn life. If you see the one correctly you see the other also.
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#8. But the sower Loves to see a woman Fallen asleep in the daytime Over a half-knitted stocking.
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#9. Then and Now In younger days each morning I rose with joy, To weep at nightfall; now, in my later years, Though doubting I begin my day, yet Always its end is serene and holy.
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#11. Everything that I have known
You'll write to me to remind
Me of, and likewise I shall do
The whole past I'll recount to you
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#12. In the union of nature, loyalty is no dream! We part only to be more intimately at one, more divinely at peace with all, with each other. We die so as to live.
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#13. What has always made the state a hell on earth has been precisely that man has tried to make it heaven.
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#14. I want to build / and raise anew / Theseus' Temple and the Stadiums / and where Pericles lived
But there's no money, too much spent today / I had a guest over and we sat together.
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#15. 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.
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#18. What has always made a Hell on earth has been that man has tried to make it his Heaven.
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#19. You have lost faith in anything great; you are doomed, then, doomed to perish unless that faith returns, like a comet from unknown skies.
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#20. You have a head and a heart? Reveal only one of them, I say; If you reveal both at once, doubly they'll damn you, for both.
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#22. I was raised by the song Of the murmuring grove And loving I learned Among Flowers.
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#24. Near and hard
to grasp
Is the God.
But where danger is
Deliverance also grows
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#26. What is all that men have done and thought over thousands of years, compared with one moment of love. But in all Nature, too, it is what is nearest to perfection, what is most divinely beautiful! There all stairs lead from the threshold of life. From there we come, to there we go.
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