Frasi di Christian Morgenstern

„Non ho mai potuto capire perché la gente mediocre dovrebbe smettere di essere mediocre solo perché sa scrivere.“

—  Christian Morgenstern

„A tutti i sottomessi
Lo scrivo su tutti i cieli
Che racchiudono la nostra sfera terrestre:
Non il tiranno dobbiamo insultare,
Ma il servo che lavora per il tiranno.“

—  Christian Morgenstern

Origine: Citato in epigrafe a Donald Rayfield, Stalin e i suoi boia: una analisi del regime e della psicologia stalinisti, traduzione di Stefania De Franco, Garzanti, Milano, 2005. ISBN 88-11-69386-1.

„A true artist never portrays to please, but to show.“

—  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.“

—  Christian Morgenstern

„Home is not where you live but where they understand you.“

—  Christian Morgenstern

„Everything is beautiful if you love it.“

—  Christian Morgenstern

„There are often some hundred times, a thousand times, before you can really see it for the first time.“

—  Christian Morgenstern

„The first principle of child-rearing is to choose a good mother.“

—  Christian Morgenstern

„Humor is the contemplation of the finite from the point of view of the infinite.“

—  Christian Morgenstern

„Enthusiasm is the most beautiful word on earth.“

—  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.“

—  Christian Morgenstern

„There is a ghost That eats hankerchiefs; It keeps you company On all your travels.“

—  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.“

—  Christian Morgenstern

„Chess truly uncovers whether or not someone has imagination and takes initiative.“

—  Christian Morgenstern

„My method is to find a word with a gesture.“

—  Christian Morgenstern

„In every work of art, the artist himself is present.“

—  Christian Morgenstern

„A poet must have died as a man before he is worth anything as a poet“

—  Christian Morgenstern

„For me, there is only one means of ensuring that I do not lose respect for myself: constant criticism.“

—  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