More from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  1. In limitations he first shows himself the master, And the law can only bring us freedom.
  2. Who wants to understand the poem Must go to the land of poetry; Who wishes to understand the poet Must go to the poet's land.
  3. The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalnes…
  4. For I have been a man, and that means to have been a fighter.
  5. One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is the intermixing of different genres.
  6. Should I not be proud, when for twenty years I have had to admit to myself that the great Newton and all the mathematicians and noble calcu…
  7. The spirits that I summoned up I now can't rid myself of.
  8. All poetry is supposed to be instructive but in an unnoticeable manner; it is supposed to make us aware of what it would be valuable to ins…

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