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“wozu Dichter in dürftiger Zeit?” --Brod und Wein () by Friedrich Hölderlin


"...and what are poets for in a destitute time?" asks Hölderlin's elegy "Bread and Wine." We hardly understand the question today. How, then, shall we grasp the answer that Hölderlin gives?" --"What Are Poets For?" by Heidegger

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Brod und Wein ("Bread and Wine"), an elegy by Friedrich Hölderlin.

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Brod und Wein ist eine Elegie von Friedrich Hölderlin, mit 160 Versen die umfangreichste der sechs großen Elegien und zugleich eines der berühmtesten Gedichte Hölderlins überhaupt. Schon Norbert von Hellingrath meinte zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts: „es wird immer die beste Grundlage bleiben zum Eindringen in Hölderlins Gedankenwelt.“

See also

  • Eucharist, a sacrament in Christianity that is associated with the Last Supper




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