by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)

Language: German (Deutsch) 
Our translations:  CAT FRE GRE ITA SAN
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O Mensch! Gib Acht!
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Was spricht, die tiefe Mitternacht?
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„Ich schlief, ich schlief --,
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„Aus tiefem Traum bin ich erwacht: --
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„Die Welt ist tief,
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„Und tiefer als der Tag gedacht.
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„Tief ist ihr Weh -,
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„Lust - tiefer noch als Herzeleid:
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„Weh spricht: Vergeh! 
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„Doch alle Lust will Ewigkeit -,
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„-- will tiefe, tiefe Ewigkeit!“
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Composition:

    Set to music by Lukas Foss (b. 1922), "O Mensch! Gib acht!", 1959-60, published 1961, copyright © 1964, lines 2,4,6,8,10,12,14,16,18,20,22 [ soprano and orchestra ], from Time Cycle, no. 4, New York, Carl Fischer

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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (Thomas Common) , no title
  • FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • GRE Greek (Ελληνικά) (Holger Christian Teipel-Jahr) , copyright © 2021, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "O uomo! Attento ascolta!", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • SAN Sanskrit (संस्कृतम्) (Holger Christian Teipel-Jahr) , "एकम्।", copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Holger Christian Teipel-Jahr

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 67