Christian Morgenstern

Christian Morgenstern

Christian Morgenstern (May 6, 1871 – March 31, 1914) was a German author.

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• None of you knows what creativity means. To paint a picture, to write a poem? No! To recast one’s whole age, to impose upon it the stamp of one’s will, to fill it with beauty, to overwhelm it, to overpower it with one’s spirit.
  • cited in Zarathustra’s Children (2000), p. 178

• Weil, so schließt er messerscharf
  Nicht sein kann, was nicht sein darf.
  • For, he reasons pointedly
    That which must not, can not be.
    • „Die unmögliche Tatsache” “The Impossible Fact” (1910)

• Allen Knechtschaffenen
  An alle Himmel schreib ichs an, die diesen Ball umspannen:
  Nicht der Tyrann ist ein schimpflicher Mann,
  aber der Knecht des Tyrannen.
  • All Servants
    Across the heavens that surround this sphere, I write:
    It is not the tyrant who is a shameful man,
    but the servant of the tyrant.
  • Melencolia, 8 (1906)

External links

• Works by Christian Morgenstern at Project Gutenberg