Friederike Kempner - also known as "The Genius of Involuntary Humour" - was a poem-writer in the second part of the 19. century. She published eight editions of her anthology by herself because she didn't find a commercial publisher. The legend tells that her family spent nearly all the property to buy the editions and so to avoid ridicule. Nevertheless Friederike's poems became famous after an article of leading critic Paul Lindau in "The Presence" where he recommended the poems in an ironically way.
Although it's impossible to translate Friederike Kempner's style, here is
an english version of the quotation in the title "Poetry is life...":