At bottom, no real object is unpoetical, if the poet knows how to use it properly.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheHell begins the day that God grants you the vision to see all that you could have done, should have done, and would have done, but did not do.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheSuperstition is rooted in a much deeper and more sensitive layer of the psyche than skepticism.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIt is ever true that he who does nothing for others, does nothing for himself." ~ Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheChildren, like dogs, have so sharp and fine a scent that they detect and hunt out everything--the bad before all the rest. They also know well enough how this or that friend stands with their parents; and as they practice no dissimulation whatever, they serve as excellent barometers by which to observe the degree of favor or disfavor at which we stand with their parents.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe