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2 days ago · What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; boldness has genius, power and magic in it. We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge doubt increases. We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
1 day ago · Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe[a] (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German polymath, who is widely regarded as the greatest and most influential writer in the German language. His work has had a profound and wide-ranging influence on Western literary, political, and philosophical thought from the late 18th century ...
2 days ago · The Erl-king Poem by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe. Poems Quotes Books Biography Comments. The Erl-king. 1. WHO rides there so late through the night dark and drear? The father it is, with his infant so dear; He holdeth the boy tightly clasp'd in his arm, He holdeth him safely, he keepeth him warm.
4 days ago · “A man’s manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe “It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.” -Robert Louis Stevenson
1 day ago · This widely available dictionary gave short definitions of words like genius and taste and was clearly influenced by the Enlightenment movement.
3 days ago · In contrast, Lord Byron and Walter Scott achieved enormous fame and influence throughout Europe with works exploiting the violence and drama of their exotic and historical settings; [50] Goethe called Byron "undoubtedly the greatest genius of our century". [51]
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3 days ago · Even the most sublime figures in German literary history— Goethe (the author of Faust), whose genius not only created poetry, novels, and drama but extended to scientific study as well, and his friend Friedrich Schiller, poet, dramatist, and literary theorist—are doomed to remain known to the world outside the German-speaking regions largely by ...
