31 Quotes by Christian Morgenstern

The first principle of child-rearing is to choose a good mother.

Enthusiasm is the most beautiful word on earth.

It is one of the oddest things in the world that you can read a page or more and think of something utterly different.

There is a ghost That eats hankerchiefs; It keeps you company On all your travels.

In every work of art, the artist himself is present.

A true artist never portrays to please, but to show.

For me, there is only one means of ensuring that I do not lose respect for myself: constant criticism.

A poet must have died as a man before he is worth anything as a poet.

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.