Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheLeap and the net will appear.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethesee how all our energies are wasted in providing for mere necessities, which gain have no further end than to prolong a wretched existence; and then that all our satisfaction concerning certain subjects of investigation ends in nothing better than a passive resignation
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheMußte denn das so sein, daß das, was des Menschen Glückseligkeit macht,
wieder die Quelle seines Elendes würde?
You are aware of only one unrest;
Oh, never learn to know the other!
Two souls, alas, are dwelling in my breast,
And one is striving to forsake its brother.
Unto the world in grossly loving zest,
With clinging tendrils, one adheres;
The other rises forcibly in quest
Of rarefied ancestral spheres.
If there be spirits in the air
That hold their sway between the earth and sky,
Descend out of the golden vapors there
And sweep me into iridescent life.
Oh, came a magic cloak into my hands
To carry me to distant lands,
I should not trade it for the choicest gown,
Nor for the cloak and garments of the crown.
Tags: world magic spirit escape unrest
To live within limits. To want one thing. Or a few things very much and love them dearly. Cling to them, survey them from every angle. Become one with them - that is what makes the poet, the artist, the human being.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheLike star that shines afar, slowly now, and without rest, let each man turn with steady sway, around the task that rules the day, and do his best.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIf you don't feel it, you'll never get it.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIf you have a great work in your head, nothing else thrives near it; all other thoughts are repelled, and the pleasure of life itself is for the time lost.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheA creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself; it is a child of solitude.
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