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
National literature no longer means very much, the age of world literature is due.
Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.
To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.
To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.
Superstition is the poetry of life.
He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.
I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.
What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.
Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.
The world remains ever the same.
I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.
Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.
Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.