Quote of the day
Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them.
Friedrich Hölderlin
Born: March 20, 1770
Died: June 7, 1843 (aged 73)
Bio: Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin was a major German lyric poet, commonly associated with the artistic movement known as Romanticism.
Known for:
- Hyperion (1797)
- Selected poems of Friedrich Hölderlin
- Hymns and fragments
- Poems of Friedrich Hölderlin
- Odes and elegies