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For, he reasons pointedly
That which must not, can not be.

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.

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

Christian Morgenstern

Christian Morgenstern

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Born: May 6, 1871

Died: March 31, 1914 (aged 42)

Bio: Christian Otto Josef Wolfgang Morgenstern was a German author and poet from Munich. Morgenstern married Margareta Gosebruch von Liechtenstern on 7 March 1910.

Known for:

Palmström (1912)
Wir fanden einen Pfad (1914)
In Phanta's Schloss (1895)
Auf vielen Wegen (1897)
Songs from the gallows

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