Mksabir

“Wir sind nichts; was wir suchen ist alles. (We are nothing; what we search for is everything.)”
― Holderlin F

“when i was a boy
a god often rescued me
from the shouts and the rods of men
and i played among trees and flowers
secure in their kindness
and the breezes of heaven
were playing there too.

and as you delight
the hearts of plants
when they stretch towards you
with little strength

so you delighted the heart in me
father Helios, and like Endymion
i was your favourite,
Moon. o all

you friendly
and faithful gods
i wish you could know
how my soul has loved you.

even though when i called to you then
it was not yet with names, and you
never named me as people do
as though they knew one another

i knew you better
than i have ever known them.
i understood the stillness above the sky
but never the words of men.

trees were my teachers
melodious trees
and i learned to love
among flowers.

i grew up in the arms of the gods.”
― Friedrich Holderlin, Selected Poems and Fragments

“Near and hard
to grasp
Is the God.
But where danger is
Deliverance also grows”
― Friedrich Holderlin, Friedrich Holderlin Eduard Morike - Selected Poems

“What do I have in common with Jews? I don't even have anything in common with myself. ”
― Franz Kafka