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Friedrich Hölderlin
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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.
— "The Root of All Evil" as translated by Michael Hamburger
Friedrich Hölderlin
German poet
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A German Romantic who fused Greek myth and Christian longing into verse, then lived the last 36 years of his life in a carpenter's house, mentally shattered, unable to write—yet later hailed by Heidegger as the greatest poet-thinker Germany produced.
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Born in Lauffen am Neckar in 1770, Hölderlin lost family early and was steered toward the Lutheran ministry. At the Tübinger Stift he roomed with Hegel and Schelling, graduated in 1793, but couldn't commit to the church and drifted into tutoring. He studied briefly at Jena in 1795, crossing paths with Fichte and Novalis, then returned to tutoring while trying to make his name as a poet. Mental illness overtook him; in 1806 a clinic declared him incurable. A carpenter named Ernst Zimmer took him in, and Hölderlin remained in that house on the Neckar for 36 years until his death in 1843. His poe…
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Friedrich Hölderlin
saidundated
You seek life, and a godly fire Gushes and gleams for you out of the earth, As, with shuddering long, you Hurl yourself down to the flames of the Etna.
— "Empedokles"
Friedrich Hölderlin
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The earth with yellow pears And overgrown with roses wild Upon the pond is bent, And swans divine, With kisses drunk You drop your heads In the sublimely sobering water.
— "Halves of Life"
Friedrich Hölderlin
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Now we were standing close to the summit's rim, gazing out into the endless East.
— As translated by Michael Hamburger
Friedrich Hölderlin
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What is all that men have done and thought over thousands of years, compared with one moment of love.
— As translated by Michael Hamburger
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