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I want to build / and raise anew / Theseus' Temple and the Stadiums / and where Pericles livedBut th...

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For our generation walks as in Hades, without the divine.

What has always made a hell on earth has been that man has tried to make it his heaven.

I am mortal born to love and to suffer.

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Friedrich Hölderlin

Poet

Born: 1770-03-20

Died: 1843-06-07

Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin (20 March 1770 – 6 June 1843) was a major German lyric poet, whose work bridges the Classical and Romantic schools.More