Through the gloomy clouds break
Blue sky, sunshine,
On the heights and in the valley
Sing the lark and the nightingale
God, I thank you that I live
Not forever in this world
Strengthen me that my soul rise
Upward toward your firmament.

Source, in full

some poetry lines of Friedrich, c. 1802-05; as cited by C. D. Eberlein in C. D. Friedrich Bekenntnisse, p 57; as quoted & translated by Linda Siegel in Caspar David Friedrich and the Age of German Romanticism, Boston Branden Press Publishers, 1978, p. 48

More quotes by Caspar David Friedrich

The divine is everywhere, even in a grain of sand; there I represented it in the reeds.

The pure, frank sentiments we hold in our hearts are the only truthful sources of art.

The beauty, the spirit of Germany, its sun, moon, stars, rocks, seas and rivers can never be expressed this way..

All authentic art is conceived at a sacred moment and nourished in a blessed hour; an inner impulse creates it, often without the artist being aware of it.

You call me a misanthrope because I avoid society. You err; I love society. Yet in order not to hate people, I must avoid their company.

All Caspar David Friedrich quotes →

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Caspar David Friedrich (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.

Through the gloomy clouds breakBlue sky, sunshine,On the heights and in the valleySing the lark and the nightingaleGod, I thank you that I liveNot forever in this worldStrengthen me that my soul riseUpward toward your firmament.

Share this quote

Source, in full

More quotes by Caspar David Friedrich

Attribution

Through the gloomy clouds break
Blue sky, sunshine,
On the heights and in the valley
Sing the lark and the nightingale
God, I thank you that I live
Not forever in this world
Strengthen me that my soul rise
Upward toward your firmament.