Christian Morgenstern
Home is not where you live, but where they understand you.Collection: Home
The first principle of child-rearing is to choose a good mother.
The hidden child wants to be able to participate and to co-create in art, rather than being simply an admiring viewer.
Home is not where you live but where they understand you.Collection: Wisdom
Woe to humanity, should only a single animal have a seat in the Last Judgement.Collection: Animal
There are often some hundred times, a thousand times, before you can really see it for the first time.Collection: Firsts
In every work of art, the artist himself is present.Collection: Art
Enthusiasm is the most beautiful word on earth.Collection: Beautiful
If modern civilization man had to kill the animals he eats, the number of vegetarians would rise astronomically.Collection: Animal
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 as mast and sail and a pebble as the captain. He also wants to be able to participate and to co-create in art, rather than being simply an admiring viewer. For this "child in man" is the immortal creator within him.Collection: Art
Home isn't where our house is, but wherever we are understood.Collection: Home
Humor is the contemplation of the finite from the point of view of the infinite.Collection: Life
A true artist never portrays to please, but to show.Collection: Artist
Chess truly uncovers whether or not someone has imagination and takes initiative.Collection: Imagination
Aviation will give new nourishment to the religious sprit of mankind. It will add airspace to those other great heighteners of the cosmic mood: the wood, the sea, the desert.Collection: Religious
If I did not love what is present, if I could not cling to this enormous, safe parachute, I would long since have fallen into the abyss.Collection: Long
For me, there is only one means of ensuring that I do not lose respect for myself: constant criticism.Collection: Mean
It is one of the oddest things in the world that you can read a page or more and think of something utterly different.Collection: Thinking
You are not at home where your residence are but where you are understood.Collection: Home
Often I am struck in amazement about a word: I suddenly realize that the complete arbitrariness of our language is but a part of the arbitrariness of our own world in general.Collection: World
There is a ghost That eats hankerchiefs; It keeps you company On all your travels.Collection: Travel
My method is to find a word with a gesture.Collection: Gestures
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. To drive it to one side or the other or even off the road, is the noblest task of the future.Collection: Class
A poet must have died as a man before he is worth anything as a poet.Collection: Men