Category Archives: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poems written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

SEEKING THE DIVINE

Refined are those Who aim at good! For this in itself Set’s them apart From all beings, That ever lived.

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TO THE KIND READER

No one talks more than a Poet; Fain he’d have the people know it.

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ON ORIGINALITY

Somebody says: “Of no school I am part, Never to living master lost my heart; Nor any more can I be said To have learned anything from the dead.” That statement – subject to appeal – Means: “I’m a self-made … Continue reading

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AN ARTIST’S EVENING SONG

To have creation’s inmost power Resounding through my mind! A shape of things, in vivid flower, Issue from my hand!

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