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Poetry
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About Friedrich HolderlinTimeline (1770 - 1843) |
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All the Fruit...
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All the fruit is ripe, plunged in fire, cooked,
And they have passed their test on earth, and one law is this: That everything curls inward, like snakes, Prophetic, dreaming on The hills of heaven. And many things Have to stay on the shoulders like a load of failure. However the roads Are bad. For the chained elements, Like horses, are going off to the side, And the old Laws of the earth. And a longing For disintegration constantly comes. Many things however Have to stay on the shoulders. Steadiness is essential. Forwards, however, or backwards we will Not look. Let us learn to live swaying As in a rocking boat on the sea.
1803
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