Being at one is god-like and good, but human, too human, th… - 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.

Friedrich Hölderlin

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Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin (20 March 1770 – 6 June 1843) was a major German lyric poet, whose work bridges the Classical and Romantic schools.

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Native Name: Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin

Alternative Names: Frederich Holderlin

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You have a head and a heart? Reveal only one of them, I say; If you reveal both at once, doubly they'll damn you, for both.

Ja, vergiß nur, daß es Menschen gibt, darbendes, angefochtenes, tausendfach geärgertes Herz! und kehre wieder dahin, wo du ausgingst, in die Arme der Natur, der wandellosen, stillen und schönen.

lo que amamos es solo sombra, cuando murieron los dorados sueños de la juventud,

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. - Friedrich Hölderlin

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