German Poet Quotes

#1. Rainer Maria Rilke was admittedly not a Dockers tagger, but a sort of European equivalent: a German poet - in many respects, a charlatan masquerading as a genius who turned out to be a genius.

Richard Flanagan

#2. For five hundred years after Walther's death - until Goethe - no German lyric poet was his equal.

Walther Von Der Vogelweide

#3. We don't just want what we want because we want it; we want what we want because that's what we've learned to want.

Hanne Blank

#4. I don't know if tea really helps when one feels precarious, but it does give one something warm to hold on to. A kitten would work just as well, but we don't have one at the moment. They will grow into cats.

Joanna Bourne

#5. You might not realize it now, kid, but everyone is some shade of fucked-up.

Riley Hart

#6. There's nothing in the world for which a poet will give up writing, not even he is a Jew and the language of his poems is German.

Paul Celan

#7. Unless you're like my friend, poet Brooks Haxton (who translates Greek, Latin, French, Hebrew, and German), throwing in three-dollar words will just make you look like a dick.

Mary Karr

#8. Social life is filled with doubts and vain aspirings; solitude, when the imagination is dethroned, is turned to weariness and ennui.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#9. Whenever I see a forecast written out to two decimal places, I cannot help but wonder if there is a misunderstanding of the limitations of the data, and an illusion of precision.

Barry Ritholtz

#10. Refuse to live a settle for it life.

Karen Salmansohn