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… — Christian Morgenstern Copy Share Image
The hidden child wants to be able to participate and to co-create in art, rather than being simply an admiring viewer. — Christian Morgenstern Copy Share Image
You are not at home where your residence are but where you are understood. — Christian Morgenstern Copy Share Image
If I did not love what is present, if I could not cling to this enormous, safe parachute, I would long since have fallen… — Christian Morgenstern Copy Share Image
It is one of the oddest things in the world that you can read a page or more and think of something utterly different. — Christian Morgenstern Copy Share Image
There are often some hundred times, a thousand times, before you can really see it for the first time. — Christian Morgenstern Copy Share Image
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.… — Christian Morgenstern Copy Share Image
Often I am struck in amazement about a word: I suddenly realize that the complete arbitrariness of our language is but a part of… — Christian Morgenstern Copy Share Image
There is a ghost That eats hankerchiefs; It keeps you company On all your travels. — Christian Morgenstern Copy Share Image
Humor is the contemplation of the finite from the point of view of the infinite. — Christian Morgenstern Copy Share Image
