If you want to get pleasure out of life, you must attach value to the world.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIf you don't know foreign languages, you don't know anything about your own.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheHow happy he who can still hope to lift himself from this sea of error! What we know not, that we are anxious to possess, and cannot use what we know.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheAfter all, poets shouldn't be their own interpreters and shouldn't carefully dissect their poems into everyday prose; that would mean the end of being poets. Poets send their creations into the world, it is up to the reader, the aesthetician, and the critic to determine what they wanted to say with their creations.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe