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Friedrich Rückert Quotes

1788–1866 Germany

Johann Michael Friedrich Rückert (16 May 1788 – 31 January 1866) was a German poet, translator, and professor of Oriental languages.

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As thou hast created me out of mingled air and glitter, I thank thee for it.

What separates art from science? The gift;
To it, proud knowledge must concede the crown.
Scholarship certainly knows how something ought to be
But it cannot create it — that you alone, art, can do.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Friedrich Rückert (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.