"Man kann auch in die Höhe fallen, so wie in die Tiefe. ("One can as well fall into height as into depth")" - Friedrich Hölderlin

Man kann auch in die Höhe fallen, so wie in die Tiefe.

Then and Now In younger days each morning I rose with joy, To weep at nightfall; now, in my later years, Though doubting I begin my day, yet Always its end is serene and holy.

For too long has everything divine been utilized,
And all the heavenly powers, the kindly ones, thrown away,
Consumed for kicks by thankless,
Cunning men, who, when the exalted

One works in their fields, think they
Know the daylight and the Thunderer,
And their telescope might see them all and
Count and name all the stars in heaven;

But the Father covers our eyes with holy
Night so we might remain.
He loves no wildness! Our expanding
power will never force heaven.

What has always made the state a hell on earth has been precisely that man has tried to make it heaven.