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 world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and though distant, is close to us in spirit - this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden
No one feels himself easy in a garden which does not look like the open country.
If you want to reach the infinite, then explore every aspect of the finite.
Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature with which she indicates how much she loves us.
To know of someone here and there whom we accord with, who is living on with us, even in silence - - this makes our earthly ball a peopled garden.
Our earthly ball a peopled garden.
Nothing is worth more than this day.
What have they done to you, my poor child?
The persons born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
The poet should size the Particular, and he should, if there be anything sound in it, thus represent the Universal
Where there is much light, the shadow is deep
There is no past that we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternally new now that builds and creates itself out of the Best as the past withdraws.
When I err every one can see it, but not when I lie
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).