Question: who wrote the poem that the words come from ode to joy
Answer: `` Ode to Joy '' ( German : `` An die Freude '' ( an diː ˈfʁɔʏdə ) , first line : `` Freude , schöner Götterfunken '' ) is an ode written in the summer of 1785 by German poet , playwright , and historian Friedrich Schiller and published the following year in Thalia .