Heinrich Boll Quotes


No one will ever know how many novels, poems, analyses, confessions, sufferings and joys have been piled up on this continent called Love, without it ever having turned out to be totally investigated.


Citations

Böll, Heinrich. "An Essay on the Reason of Poetry." Nobel Lecture, 2 May 1973. Nobel Lectures, Literature 1968-1980, edited by Tore Frängsmyr and Sture Allén, World Scientific Publishing Co., 1993.

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Heinrich Boll
Heinrich Boll
  • Born: December 21, 1917
  • Died: July 16, 1985
  • Nationality: German
  • Profession: Writer

Heinrich Theodor Böll was one of Germany's foremost post-World War II writers. He was awarded the Georg Büchner Prize in 1967 and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1972.