Christian Morgenstern quotes

You are not at home where your residence are but where you are understood. (Christian Morgenstern)
The first principle of child-rearing is to choose a good mother. View quote
Christian Morgenstern
The hidden child wants to be able to participate and to co-create in art, rather than being simply an admiring viewer. View quote
Christian Morgenstern
There are often some hundred times, a thousand times, before you can really see it for the first time. View quote
Christian Morgenstern
In every work of art, the artist himself is present. View quote
Christian Morgenstern
If modern civilization man had to kill the animals he eats, the number of vegetarians would rise astronomically. View quote
Christian Morgenstern
Enthusiasm is the most beautiful word on earth. View quote
Christian Morgenstern
Humor is the contemplation of the finite from the point of view of the infinite. View quote
Christian Morgenstern
A true artist never portrays to please, but to show. View quote
Christian Morgenstern
Chess truly uncovers whether or not someone has imagination and takes initiative. View quote
Christian Morgenstern
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. (Christian Morgenstern)
For me, there is only one means of ensuring that I do not lose respect for myself: constant criticism. View quote
Christian Morgenstern
It is one of the oddest things in the world that you can read a page or more and think of something utterly different. View quote
Christian Morgenstern
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. View quote
Christian Morgenstern
There is a ghost That eats hankerchiefs; It keeps you company On all your travels. View quote
Christian Morgenstern
My method is to find a word with a gesture. View quote
Christian Morgenstern
A poet must have died as a man before he is worth anything as a poet. View quote
Christian Morgenstern
To me, the term ‘middle-class' connotes a safe, comfortable, middle-of-the road policy. Above all, our language is ‘middle-class' in the middle of our road. To drive it to one side or the other or even off the road, is the noblest task of the future. View quote
Christian Morgenstern
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. View quote
Christian Morgenstern
For, he reasons pointedly That which must not, can not be. View quote
Christian Morgenstern
Everything is beautiful if you love it. (Christian Morgenstern)