Friedrich Rückert

thumb| Johann Michael Friedrich Rückert (16 May 1788 – 31 January 1866) was a German poet, translator, and professor of Oriental languages. Quotes Wie aus Duft und Glanz gemischtDu mich schufst, dir dank ich's heut. As thou hast created me out of mingled air and glitter, I thank thee for it. Die Sterbende Blume, Stanza 8. Reported in Hoyt's (1922) p. 147 What I offer here is not a translation; that would be superfluous. Rather, [I offer] an attempt to bring closer to us a beautiful foreign tale, through reworking it as German poetry ... I have attempted to reach this goal of nationalizing [the poem] by making the episodes stand alone, but also by dressing [them] in class-appropriate German costume, excluding everything foreign which is only understandable to us by learned means and is not immediately [understandable] through the feelings, while still retaining the local color, insofar as it does not destroy the poetic impression, but seems to strengthen it. Suzanne L. Marchand - German Orientalism in the Age of Empire. Religion, Race, and Scholarship-Cambridge University Press (2009) What separates art from science? The gift; To it, proud knowledge must concede the crown. Scholarship certainly knows how something ought to be But it cannot create it — that you alone, art, can do. Rückert, “Weisheit des Brahmanen,” stanza 2; reprinted in Rückerts Werke, ed. Georg Ellinger, vol. 2 (Leipzig, 1897), p. 63. Was unterscheidet Kunst von Wissenschaft? Das Koennen Dem muss der Vorrang doch das stolze Wissen goennen. Wohl weiss die Wissenschaft, wie etwas sollte sein, Doch machen kann sie’s nicht, das kannst du, Kunst, allein. Suzanne L. Marchand - German Orientalism in the Age of Empire. Religion, Race, and Scholarship-Cambridge University Press (2009) Quotes about Rückert today is largely forgotten and was, even in his day, an almost uncategorizable individual. Was he a poet or a scholar, a writer or a translator, a German nationalist or a universalist, a Christian or a pagan? He did, in fact, inhabit all of these identities, often simultaneously, and it would take at least one very fat book to do his intellectual career justice. Suzanne L. Marchand - German Orientalism in the Age of Empire. Religion, Race, and Scholarship-Cambridge University Press (2009) External links Lilian Dalbiac (ed.) Dictionary of Quotations: German (London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co, Ltd; New York: Macmillan, 1906) pp. 12, 13, 23, 24, 47, 49, 55, 58, 68, 70, 103, 110, 115, 139, 163, 194, 217, 235, 261, 270, 284, 291, 344, 349, 371 Kate Louise Roberts (ed.) Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (New York and London: Funk & Wagnalls Co, 1922) p. 147 Charles T. Brooks, German Lyrics (Boston, MA: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1853) p. 103 Category:1788 births Category:1866 deaths Category:Poets from Germany Category:Translators from Germany Category:Orientalists