Uwe Johnson - Marriage

Marriage

In 1962 (February 27th) Johnson married Elisabeth Schmidt who later was accused to be in a love affair with the Czech Mozart scholar Tomislav Volek.

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Famous quotes containing the word marriage:

    “Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.”
    —Peter De Vries (20th century)

    “Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.”
    —John Updike (b. 1932)

    “But most thro’ midnight streets I hear
    How the youthful Harlots curse
    Blasts the new-born Infants tear
    And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse”
    —William Blake (1757–1827)