Spitteler
Americannoun
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Poet Carl Spitteler claimed that if the Swiss had created the Alps, they would not have been so high.
From Time Magazine Archive
Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler, 79, Swiss epic poet and essayist, winner of the 1919 Nobel Prize for Literature; at Lucerne.
From Time Magazine Archive
The German censor attempts in vain to silence him and to forbid the publication of the lectures of Spitteler and of Annette Kolb; his indignation and cries of vengeful irony spread even to us.
From Above the Battle by Rolland, Romain
Liberty consists in that very thing, that a free man is in himself a conscious law of the universe, a counter-balance to the crushing machine, the automaton of Spitteler, the bronze Ananké.
From Clerambault The Story of an Independent Spirit During the War by Rolland, Romain
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