The poet should seize the Particular, and he should, if there be anything sound in it, thus represent the Universal.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheHigher yet and higher out of clouds and night, nearer yet and nearer rising to the light - light, serene and holy where my soul may rest, purified and lowly, sanctified and blest.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWanted: A dog that neither barks nor bites, eats broken glass and shits diamonds.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheEach one of us must carry within the proof of immortality, it cannot be given from outside of us. To be sure, everything in natureis change but behind the change there is something eternal.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe