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1770–1843 Germany
Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin (20 March 1770 – 6 June 1843) was a major German lyric poet, whose work bridges the Classical and Romantic schools.
Germany Novelists Philosophers Playwrights Poets Also known as: Friedrich Holderlin, Holderlin, Friedrich, Hölderlin, Hölderlin, Friedrich, Holderlin
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What has always made the state a hell on earth has been precisely that man has tried to make it heaven.
The heart's wave would not foam up so beautifully and become spirit, if the ancient, mute rock, fate, did not stand opposed to it.
Being at one is god-like and good, but human, too human, the mania
Wherein lies the danger, grows also the saving power.
He who has thought most deeply loves what is most alive.
What is the wisdom of a book compared with the wisdom of an angel?
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!
Now we were standing close to the summit's rim, gazing out into the endless East.
Before either of us knew it, we belonged to each other.
I call on Fate to give me back my soul.
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