I am mortal born to love and to suffer.
What has always made a hell on earth has been that man has tried to make it his heaven.
Some are shy of going to the sourceFor riches begin in the sea.
Everything that I have knownYou'll write to me to remindMe of, and likewise I shall doThe whole past I'll recount to you
Wo aber die Gefahr ist, wächst,
It is beautiful to unfold our souls And our short lives
Eagles live in the darkness, And the sons of the Alps Cross over the abyss without fear On lightly-built bridges.***Growing weak on the separate mountains —Then give us calm waters;
Ein Zeichen sind wir, deutungslos,Schmerzlos sind wir und haben fastDie Sprache in der Fremde verloren.Wenn nämlich über MenschenEin Streit ist an dem Himmel und gewaltigDie Monde gehen, so redetDas M...
Alles prüfe der Mensch,dass er Danken für alles lernt
Good Advice You’ve a head and a heart? Reveal only one of them, I say; If you reveal both at once, doubly they’ll damn you, for both.
These fruits are ripe, dipped in fire,Cooked and sampled here on earth.
Too long now things divine have been cheaply usedAnd all the power of heaven, the kindly, spentIn trifling waste by cold and cunningMen without thanks, who when he, the Highest,In person tills their f...
Hälfte des LebensMit gelben Birnen hängetUnd voll mit wilden RosenDas Land in den See,Ihr holden Schwäne,Und trunken von KüssenTunkt ihr das HauptIns heilignüchterne Wasser.Weh mir, wo nehm’ ich, wenn...
You wanted greater thingsBut love forces all of us downAnd sorrow bows us still harder.They bend us back where we began.Are there not in the hallowed nightAlso right things?Things that are straight an...
Ja, vergiß nur, daß es Menschen gibt, darbendes, angefochtenes, tausendfach geärgertes Herz! und kehre wieder dahin, wo du ausgingst, in die Arme der Natur, der wandellosen, stillen und schönen.
These fruits are ripe, dipped in fire,Cooked and tested here on earth.
In the union of nature, loyalty is no dream! We part only to be more intimately at one, more divinely at peace with all, with each other. We die so as to live.
¿Qué son los siglos, comparados a ese instante en que dos seres se adivinan y se acercan?
The God, when he draws near, will the heart stand fast.But, oh my, shame! when ofMy shame! And let me say at onceThat I approached to see the Heavenly,And they cast me down, deep downBelow the living,...
To the Parcae A single summer grant me, great powers, anda single autumn for fully ripened songthat, sated with the sweetness of myplaying, my heart may more willingly die.The soul that, living, did n...
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