Christian Morgenstern
Christian Morgenstern
Christian Otto Josef Wolfgang Morgensternwas a German author and poet from Munich. Morgenstern married Margareta Gosebruch von Liechtenstern on 7 March 1910. He worked for a while as a journalist in Berlin, but spent much of his life traveling through Germany, Switzerland, and Italy, primarily in a vain attempt to recover his health. His travels, though they failed to restore him to health, allowed him to meet many of the foremost literary and philosophical figures of his time in central...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth6 May 1871
CountryGermany
Home is not where you live, but where you are understood.
Humor is the contemplation of the finite from the point of view of the infinite.
Home isn't where our house is, but wherever we are understood.
Chess truly uncovers whether or not someone has imagination and takes initiative.
The first principle of child-rearing is to choose a good mother.
Enthusiasm is the most beautiful word on earth.
It is one of the oddest things in the world that you can read a page or more and think of something utterly different.
There is a ghost That eats hankerchiefs; It keeps you company On all your travels.
In every work of art, the artist himself is present.
A true artist never portrays to please, but to show.
For me, there is only one means of ensuring that I do not lose respect for myself: constant criticism.
A poet must have died as a man before he is worth anything as a poet.
If I did not love what is present, if I could not cling to this enormous, safe parachute, I would long since have fallen into the abyss.
My method is to find a word with a gesture.