# Friedrich Hölderlin's best-known lines

'But where danger is, grows the saving power also', 'But what remains, the poets found', 'Come! into the open, friend!': Hölderlin's best-known lines from his poems and Hyperion, with their source.

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- Jul 6, 2023 · Sabine M.
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## Top 13

1. **But where danger is, grows / The saving power also.** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — 'Patmos' (1803), lines 3-4.
2. **But what remains, the poets found.** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — 'Remembrance' (1803), last line.
3. **One can also fall upwards, just as one falls into the depths.** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Aphorisms.
4. **Grant me but one summer, you mighty ones, and one autumn for ripe song** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — 'To the Fates' (1798).
5. **The walls stand speechless and cold; in the wind the weathervanes clatter.** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 'Half of Life' (1805).
6. **For you Germans too are poor in deeds and rich in thoughts.** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 'To the Germans'.
7. **Nothing would live if it did not hope.** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Hyperion, book one.
8. **What has always made the state a hell is that man wanted to make it his heaven.** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Hyperion, book one.
9. **Come! into the open, friend!** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — 'The Walk in the Country', opening.
10. **But man is a god as soon as he is man. And if he is a god, he is beautiful.** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Hyperion, book two.
11. **We are nothing; what we seek is everything.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Fragment of Hyperion (1793).
12. **To be one with all, that is the life of the divine, that is man's heaven.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Hyperion, book one.
13. **In the child alone is freedom.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Hyperion, book one.

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