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 they understand you.
There are often some hundred times, a thousand times, before you can really see it for the first time.
Often I am struck in amazement about a word: I suddenly realize that the complete arbitrariness of our language is but a part of the arbitrariness of our own world in general.
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.