Friedrich Holderlin

Being at one is god-like and good, but human, too human, the mania Which insists there is only the One, one country, one truth, and one way.

— Friedrich Holderlin

The earth with yellow pears The weathercocks are rattling.

— Friedrich Holderlin

Now we were standing close to the summit's rim, gazing out into the endless East.

— Friedrich Holderlin

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! There all stairs lead from the threshold of life. From there we come, to there we go.

— Friedrich Holderlin

What is the wisdom of a book compared with the wisdom of an angel?

— Friedrich Holderlin

I call on Fate to give me back my soul.

— Friedrich Holderlin

It was not delight, not wonder that arose among us, it was the peace of heaven. A thousand times have I said it to her and to myself: the most beautiful is also the most sacred. And such was everything in her. Like her singing, even so was her life.

— Friedrich Holderlin

Before either of us knew it, we belonged to each other.

— Friedrich Holderlin

For our generation walks as in Hades, without the divine.

— Friedrich Holderlin