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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician

1749–1832

60 quotes, most often on Love, Art and Talking. Part of the Poets collection.

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
Wilhelm Meister’s Lehrjahre (Apprenticeship) (1786–1830), Bk. V, Ch. 1
- Art
- Talking
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
- Art
What is Classical is healthy; what is Romantic is sick.
Maxims and Reflections (1833), Maxim 1031, trans. Stopp
- Art
Art is in itself noble; that is why the artist has no fear of what is common. This, indeed, is already ennobled when he takes it up.
Maxims and Reflections (1833), Maxim 61, trans. Stopp
- Art
What dazzles, for the Moment spends its spirit:
What’s genuine, shall Posterity inherit.
Faust (1808), Prelude at the Theatre, spoken by PoetIn context
- Art
- Fame

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