"Personality is everything in art and poetry."
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"I love those who yearn for the impossible."
"If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like."
"Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes."
"To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods."
"The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality."
"The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving."
"If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be."
"Es ist nicht genug, zu wissen, man muß auch anwenden; es ist nicht genug, zu wollen, man muß auch tun."
"If you would create something,you must be something."
"The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art."
"Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words."
"At the moment of commitment the entire universe conspires to assist you."
"This is the true measure of love: when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us."
"Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children."
"Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast. - Without haste, but without rest."
"Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much as it desires: beyond the elevation and moral culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the Gospels, it will not go."
"The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden."
"By seeking and blundering we learn."
"He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth."