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I stand aloft on the balcony,
The starlings around me crying,
And let like maenad my hair st...
poem by Annette von Droste-Hülshoff
I want to go with the one I love.
I do not want to calculate the cost.
I do not want to think ab...
poem by Bertolt Brecht
One day Mamma said "Conrad dear,
I must go out and leave you here.
But mind now, Conrad, what...
poem by Heinrich Hoffmann
'Tis an eerie thing o'er the moor to fare
When the eddies of peat-smoke justle,
When the wra...
poem by Annette von Droste-Hülshoff
Write me what you're wearing! Is it warm?
Write me how you lie! Do you lie there softly?
Write me ...
poem by Bertolt Brecht
To Archimedes once a scholar came,
"Teach me," he said, "the art that won thy fame;â...
poem by Friedrich Schiller
Let others speak of her shame,
I speak of my own.

O Germany, pale mother!
How soiled you are...
poem by Bertolt Brecht
You little box, held to me escaping
So that your valves should not break
Carried from house to h...
poem by Bertolt Brecht
The year at its turn,
the whirring thread unrolls.
One hour more, the last today,
and what was li...
poem by Annette von Droste-Hülshoff
It almost makes me cry to tell
What foolish Harriet befell.
Mamma and Nurse went out one day
And ...
poem by Heinrich Hoffmann
The day was still, the sun's bright glare
Fell sheer upon the Temple's beauteous wall
Withered...
poem by Annette von Droste-Hülshoff
My love
Has told me
That he needs me.

That's why
I take good care of myself
Watch out wh...
poem by Bertolt Brecht
Augustus was a chubby lad;
Fat, ruddy cheeks Augustus had;
And everybody saw with joy
The plump a...
poem by Heinrich Hoffmann
THERE stands an ancient castle
On yonder mountain height,
Where, fenced with door and portal,
Onc...
poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I never loved you more, ma soeur
Than as I walked away from you that evening.
The forest swallowed...
poem by Bertolt Brecht
When the children have been good,
That is, be it understood,
Good at meal-times, good at play,
Go...
poem by Heinrich Hoffmann
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are....
quote by Bertolt Brecht
IN Paradise while moonbeams played,
Jehovah found, in slumber deep,
Adam fast sunk; He gently laid...
poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
THE water rushed, the water swelled,
A fisherman sat by,
And gazed upon his dancing float
With tr...
poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Yes! even I was in Arcadia born,
And, in mine infant ears,
A vow of rapture was by Nature sworn...
poem by Friedrich Schiller
Why run the crowd? What means the throng
That rushes fast the streets along?
Can Rhodes a prey to...
poem by Friedrich Schiller
Welcome, gentle Stripling,
Nature's darling thou!
With thy basket full of blossoms,
A...
poem by Friedrich Schiller
Ye in the age gone by,
Who ruled the world—a world how lovely then!—
And guided still the step...
poem by Friedrich Schiller
Friend!—the Great Ruler, easily content,
Needs not the laws it has laborious been
The task of s...
poem by Friedrich Schiller
THE warder he gazes o' the night
On the graveyards under him lying,
The moon into clearness throws...
poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon....
quote by Bertolt Brecht
Oh! thou bright-beaming god, the plains are thirsting,
Thirsting for freshening dew, and man is pin...
poem by Friedrich Schiller
Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels....
quote by Bertolt Brecht
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand....
quote by Bertolt Brecht
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life....
quote by Bertolt Brecht
I was disappointed, not because we had lost the war but because our people had allowed it to go on f...
quote by George Grosz
A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast....
quote by Friedrich Schiller
Space, and space again, is the infinite deity which surrounds us and in which we are ourselves conta...
quote by Max Beckmann
The artist need not know very much; best of all let him work instinctively and paint as naturally as...
quote by Emil Nolde
A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them....
quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Look at life with the eyes of a child....
quote by Kathe Kollwitz
A noble heart will always capitulate to reason....
quote by Friedrich Schiller
What are you? What am I? Those are the questions that constantly persecute and torment me and perhap...
quote by Max Beckmann
The war was a mirror; it reflected man's every virtue and every vice, and if you looked closely, lik...
quote by George Grosz
What appears spectral today will be natural tomorrow....
quote by Franz Marc
A useless life is an early death....
quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I do not weep: I loathe tears, for they are a sign of slavery....
quote by Max Beckmann
My paintings are allegories not portraits....
quote by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Today we are searching for things in nature that are hidden behind the veil of appearance... We look...
quote by Franz Marc
A clever man commits no minor blunders....
quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Appearance rules the world....
quote by Friedrich Schiller
A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished....
quote by Friedrich Schiller
Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties....
quote by Emil Nolde
A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of sol...
quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Art is the daughter of freedom....
quote by Friedrich Schiller

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