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Christian Morgenstern
3 quotes
“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.”
Christian Morgenstern (1871–1914) said by 1914 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: cited in Zarathustra’s Children (2000), p. 178
“Weil, so schließt er messerscharf Nicht sein kann, was nicht sein darf.”
Christian Morgenstern (1871–1914) first seen 1910 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: „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.”
Christian Morgenstern (1871–1914) first seen 1906 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Melencolia, 8 (1906)