Friedrich Hölderlin's best-known lines
The top 3 according to 33 votes from people: But where danger is, grows / The saving power also. · But what remains, the poets found. · One can also fall upwards, just as one falls into the depths.. (Updated Jul 6, 2023.)
'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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Top 13
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But where danger is, grows / The saving power also.
'Patmos' (1803), lines 3-4.
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But what remains, the poets found.
'Remembrance' (1803), last line.
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One can also fall upwards, just as one falls into the depths.
Aphorisms.
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Grant me but one summer, you mighty ones, and one autumn for ripe song
'To the Fates' (1798).
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The walls stand speechless and cold; in the wind the weathervanes clatter.
'Half of Life' (1805).
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For you Germans too are poor in deeds and rich in thoughts.
'To the Germans'.
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Nothing would live if it did not hope.
Hyperion, book one.
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What has always made the state a hell is that man wanted to make it his heaven.
Hyperion, book one.
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Come! into the open, friend!
'The Walk in the Country', opening.
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But man is a god as soon as he is man. And if he is a god, he is beautiful.
Hyperion, book two.
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We are nothing; what we seek is everything.
Fragment of Hyperion (1793).
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To be one with all, that is the life of the divine, that is man's heaven.
Hyperion, book one.
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In the child alone is freedom.
Hyperion, book one.
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