Holderlin Quotes

“I am mortal born to love and to suffer.”

“What has always made a hell on earth has been that man has tried to make it his heaven.”

“I want to build / and raise anew / Theseus' Temple and the Stadiums / and where Pericles livedBut there's no money, too much spent today / I had a guest over and we sat together.”

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

“A poet has to be a bit childlike at heart, and in that sense all the romantic stereotypes about poets being "eternal children", etc, are all accurate. They believe, whatever they may say, that art and words can change the world.”