More from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  1. 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.
  2. 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…
  3. One never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going.
  4. 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…
  5. In limitations he first shows himself the master, And the law can only bring us freedom.
  6. One must be something in order to do something.
  7. The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalnes…
  8. If I work incessantly to the last, nature owes me another form of existence when the present one collapses.

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