Carl Spitteler Quotes
At my father's request I took up the study of law at the University of Zurich In 1863.
Citations
Spitteler, Carl. "Carl Spitteler - Biographical." Nobel Lectures, Literature 1901-1967, edited by Horst Frenz, Elsevier Publishing Company, 1969.
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Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler was a Swiss poet who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1919 "in special appreciation of his epic, Olympian Spring". His work includes both pessimistic and heroic poems.