More from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  1. If I work incessantly to the last, nature owes me another form of existence when the present one collapses.
  2. The artist may be well advised to keep his work to himself till it is completed, because no one can readily help him or advise him with it.…
  3. One must be something in order to do something.
  4. Willst du immer weiterschweifen? Sieh, das Gute liegt so nah. Lerne nur das Gluck ergreifen, denn das Gluck ist immer da.
  5. 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…
  6. Create, artist! Do not talk!
  7. 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…
  8. O'er all the hilltops Is quiet now, In all the treetops Hearest thou Hardly a breath; The birds are asleep in the trees: Wait; soon like th…

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