3 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes on Poetry

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quotes on poetry

17. 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.

20. 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 instruct ourselves in; we must deduce the lesson on our own, just as with life.

35. Knowst thou the land where the lemon trees bloom, Where the gold orange glows in the deep thicket's gloom, Where a wind ever soft from the blue heaven blows, And the groves are of laurel and myrtle and rose?