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title: "2 Admiring Quotes By Christian Morgenstern"
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> [The hidden child wants to be able to participate and to co-create in art, rather than being simply an admiring viewer.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christian-morgenstern/the-hidden-child-wants-to-be-able-to-participate-and-to-co-create-in/)

[Christian Morgenstern](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christian-morgenstern/)

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> [In every man there is a hidden child which is called the urge to create and he prefers as play things and serious things not the miniature ships, recreated in the minutest detail, but the walnutshell with a bird feather…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christian-morgenstern/in-every-man-there-is-a-hidden-child-which-is-called-the-urge-to/)

[Christian Morgenstern](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christian-morgenstern/)

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## More by Christian Morgenstern

> [The hidden child wants to be able to participate and to co-create in art, rather than being simply an admiring viewer.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christian-morgenstern/the-hidden-child-wants-to-be-able-to-participate-and-to-co-create-in/)

[Christian Morgenstern](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christian-morgenstern/)

> [You are not at home where your residence are but where you are understood.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christian-morgenstern/you-are-not-at-home-where-your-residence-are-but-where-you-are/)

[Christian Morgenstern](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christian-morgenstern/)

> [If I did not love what is present, if I could not cling to this enormous, safe parachute, I would long since have fallen…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christian-morgenstern/if-i-did-not-love-what-is-present-if-i-could-not-cling-to-this/)

[Christian Morgenstern](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christian-morgenstern/)

> [It is one of the oddest things in the world that you can read a page or more and think of something utterly different.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christian-morgenstern/it-is-one-of-the-oddest-things-in-the-world-that-you-can-read-a-page/)

[Christian Morgenstern](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christian-morgenstern/)

> [There are often some hundred times, a thousand times, before you can really see it for the first time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christian-morgenstern/there-are-often-some-hundred-times-a-thousand-times-before-you-can/)

[Christian Morgenstern](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christian-morgenstern/)

> [“That which must not, can not be.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christian-morgenstern/that-which-must-not-can-not-be/)

[Christian Morgenstern](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christian-morgenstern/)

> [To me, the term 'middle-class' connotes a safe, comfortable, middle-of-the road policy. Above all, our language is 'middle-class' in the middle of our road.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christian-morgenstern/to-me-the-term-middle-class-connotes-a-safe-comfortable-middle-of-the/)

[Christian Morgenstern](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christian-morgenstern/)

> [Home is not where you live but where they understand you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christian-morgenstern/home-is-not-where-you-live-but-where-they-understand-you/)

[Christian Morgenstern](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christian-morgenstern/)

> [Often I am struck in amazement about a word: I suddenly realize that the complete arbitrariness of our language is but a part of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christian-morgenstern/often-i-am-struck-in-amazement-about-a-word-i-suddenly-realize-that/)

[Christian Morgenstern](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christian-morgenstern/)

> [There is a ghost That eats hankerchiefs; It keeps you company On all your travels.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christian-morgenstern/there-is-a-ghost-that-eats-hankerchiefs-it-keeps-you-company-on-all/)

[Christian Morgenstern](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christian-morgenstern/)

> [A true artist never portrays to please, but to show.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christian-morgenstern/a-true-artist-never-portrays-to-please-but-to-show/)

[Christian Morgenstern](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christian-morgenstern/)

> [Humor is the contemplation of the finite from the point of view of the infinite.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christian-morgenstern/humor-is-the-contemplation-of-the-finite-from-the-point-of-view-of/)

[Christian Morgenstern](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christian-morgenstern/)

> [In every work of art, the artist himself is present.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christian-morgenstern/in-every-work-of-art-the-artist-himself-is-present/)

[Christian Morgenstern](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christian-morgenstern/)

> [If modern civilization man had to kill the animals he eats, the number of vegetarians would rise astronomically.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christian-morgenstern/if-modern-civilization-man-had-to-kill-the-animals-he-eats-the-number/)

[Christian Morgenstern](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christian-morgenstern/)

> [A poet must have died as a man before he is worth anything as a poet.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christian-morgenstern/a-poet-must-have-died-as-a-man-before-he-is-worth-anything-as-a-poet/)

[Christian Morgenstern](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christian-morgenstern/)

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