Top 5 Christian Morgenstern Quotes

All Servants
Across the heavens that surround this sphere, I write:
It is not the tyrant who is a shameful man,
but the servant of the tyrant.

Allen Knechtschaffenen
An alle Himmel schreib ichs an, die diesen Ball umspannen:
Nicht der Tyrann ist ein schimpflicher Mann,
aber der Knecht des Tyrannen.

For, he reasons pointedly
That which must not, can not be.

Weil, so schließt er messerscharf
Nicht sein kann, was nicht sein darf.

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.