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
The clever reader who is capable or reading between these lines what does not stand written in them but is nevertheless implied will be able to form some conception.
Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.
The happy do not believe in miracles.
Talent develops in quiet, alone; character is sharpened in the torrent of the world.
Perfection is the measure of heaven, and the wish to be perfect the measure of man.
Create, artist, do not talk.
The artist has a twofold relation to nature; he is at once her master and her slave.
Collectors are happy people.
The century is advanced, but every individual begins afresh.
There are two things parents should give their children roots and wings. Roots to give them bearing and a sense of belonging, but also wings to help free them from constraints and prejudices and give them other ways to travel (or rather, to fly).
What is hardest of all? That which seems most simple: to see with your eyes what is before your eyes.
Boldness has power, magic and genius in it.
If nature is your teacher, your soul will awaken.
It is the nature of grace always to fill spaces that have been empty.