The close and thoughtful observer more and more learns to recognize his limitations. He realizes that with the steady growth of knowledge more and more new problems keep on emerging.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWe amuse ourselves painting our prison-walls with bright figures and brilliant landscapes.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe question "From where does the poet get it?" addresses only the what, nobody learns anything about the how when asking that question.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheTrue love is love that stays constant for ever, whatever it's fortune; whether requited or scored, filled or sent empty away.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheRash combat oft immortalizes man; if he should fall, he is renowned in song; but after-ages reckon not the ceaseless tears which the forsaken woman sheds. Poets tell us not of the many nights consumed in weeping, or of the dreary days wherein her anguished soul vainly yearns to call her loved one back.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe