For me, there is only one means of ensuring that I do not lose respect for myself: constant criticism. — 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
If modern civilization man had to kill the animals he eats, the number of vegetarians would rise astronomically. — Christian Morgenstern Copy Share Image
A poet must have died as a man before he is worth anything as a poet. — Christian Morgenstern Copy Share Image
