Christian Morgenstern

thumb|right|200px|Christian Morgenstern Christian Morgenstern (May 6, 1871 – March 31, 1914) was a German author. Sourced 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. cited in Zarathustra’s Children (2000), p. 178 Weil, so schließt er messerscharfNicht sein kann, was nicht sein darf. For, he reasons pointedlyThat which must not, can not be. „Die unmögliche Tatsache” “The Impossible Fact” (1910) Allen KnechtschaffenenAn alle Himmel schreib ichs an, die diesen Ball umspannen:Nicht der Tyrann ist ein schimpflicher Mann,aber der Knecht des Tyrannen. All ServantsAcross the heavens that surround this sphere, I write:It is not the tyrant who is a shameful man,but the servant of the tyrant. Melencolia, 8 (1906) External links Christian_Morgenstern Christian Morgenstern Category:Poets from Germany Category:Non-fiction authors from Germany Category:Translators from Germany Category:1871 births Category:1914 deaths Category:People from Munich