Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann WolfgangGoethetə/; German: ; 28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German writer and statesman. His body of work includes epic and lyric poetry written in a variety of metres and styles; prose and verse dramas; memoirs; an autobiography; literary and aesthetic criticism; treatises on botany, anatomy, and colour; and four novels. In addition, numerous literary and scientific fragments, more than 10,000 letters, and nearly 3,000 drawings by him exist...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth28 August 1749
CountryGermany
I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.
It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.
For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.
Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.
Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.
Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.
The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.
Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.
Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.
Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.
He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.
Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.