Perseverance is a silent power that grows irresistibly greater with time.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheSolitude is fine when you are at peace with yourself and have something definite to do.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheArt is constitutive-the artist determines beauty. He does not take it over.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIf a poet would work politically, he must give himself up to a party; and so soon as he does that, he is lost as a poet.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe