Hölderlin
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noun
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He left a biography of Hölderlin on his desk with this sentence underlined: “Sometimes this genius goes dark and sinks down into the bitter well of his heart.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
Written in three movements with an ancient Greek-inspired text by Friedrich Hölderlin, “Schicksalslied” descends from radiant joyfulness into dark despair before resolving into something akin to solace.
From New York Times ● Apr. 23, 2023
Henze connected the symphony to the life of Friedrich Hölderlin, a poet who had a mental breakdown in Tübingen, living his last 36 years in a tower room overlooking the Neckar river.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 25, 2016
Certain lines in the Hölderlin poems seemed wistful and fairly lucid.
From New York Times ● Sep. 13, 2015
No other German poet has allowed himself to be so completely dominated by the Greek idea as did Hölderlin.
From Types of Weltschmerz in German Poetry by Wilhelm Alfred Braun
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