What has always made a Hell on earth has been that man has tried to make it his Heaven.

- Friedrich Holderlin

In life learn art, in the artwork learn life. If you see the one correctly you see the other also.

- Friedrich Holderlin

I am mortal, born to love and to suffer.

- Friedrich Holderlin

I was raised by the song Of the murmuring grove And loving I learned Among Flowers.

- Friedrich Holderlin

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

- Friedrich Holderlin

The earth with yellow pearsAnd overgrown with roses wildUpon the pond is bent,And swans divine,With kisses drunkYou drop your headsIn the sublimely s…

- Friedrich Holderlin