What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds like lovely music.
— Soren Kierkegaard Modern

Father of existentialism

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Either/Or, Part I

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1843

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Humorous

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