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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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I call architecture frozen music.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


#call #frozen #i #music

Colors are light's suffering and joy


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


#nature #art

Classicism is health, romanticisim is sickness.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


#romantic #romantic

It is not doing the thing we like, but liking the thing we have to do that makes life happy.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


#life

When I say to the Moment flying; 'Linger a while -- thou art so fair!' Then bind me in thy bonds undying, And my final ruin I will bear!


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


#devil #drama #pact #art

When a human awakens to a great dream and throws the full force of his soul over it, all the universe conspires in your favor.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


#soul #universe #dreams

Anything you can do, or dream you do, begin it: boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


#inspirational #success #dreams

if only these treasures were not so fragile as they are precious and beautiful.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


#fragile #peace-of-mind #pleasure #treasures #beauty

It's in the anomalies that nature reveals its secrets.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


#secrets #nature

Whatever you can do or believe you can do begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now.” —Goethe


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


#inspirational #joy #love #motivation #relationahips






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His conversations and various common undertakings throughout the 1790s with Schiller Johann Gottlieb Fichte Johann Gottfried Herder Alexander von Humboldt Wilhelm von Humboldt and August and Friedrich Schlegel have in later years been collectively termed Weimar Classicism. After returning from a tour of Italy in 1788 Goethe publiJohann Wolfgang von Goethed his first major work of a scientific nature the Metamorphosis of Plants. He was an early participant in the Sturm und Drang literary movement named for a play by his childhood friend Friedrich Maximilian Klinger.

Goethe's poems were set to music throughout the nineteenth century by a number of composers including Ludwig van Beethoven Franz Schubert Robert Schumann Johannes Brahms Hugo Wolf and Gustav Mahler. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German: [ˈjoːhan ˈvɔlfɡaŋ fɔn ˈɡøːtə] ([Image] listen) 28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German writer artist and politician.

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