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  • The German poet Goethe once said that "he who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth."†   (source)
  • Mr. President, Mrs. Clinton, members of Congress, Ambassador Holbrooke, Excellencies, friends: Fifty-four years ago to the day, a young Jewish boy from a small town in the Carpathian Mountains woke up, not far from Goethe's beloved Weimar, in a place of eternal infamy called Buchenwald.†   (source)
  • By then, Borges was completely blind and had no reason to visit the bookshop--because he could no longer read, and because over the course of his life he'd read so much, memorized such vast portions of Cervantes, Goethe, and Shakespeare, that all he had to do was sit in the darkness and reflect.†   (source)
  • Goethe.†   (source)
  • The room usually fills when Cedric is around and, soon, Ira Volker is here, along with Florian Keil, his soft-spoken German roommate whose father runs a Boston arm of the Goethe Institute, the German government's cultural ministry abroad.†   (source)
  • When Goethe as a young student visited the city, he still found sad ruins 'Von der Kuppel der Frauenkirche sah ich these leidigen Trimmer zwischen die schone stddtische Ordnung hineingesat; da rihmte mir der Kiister die Kunst des Baumeisters, welcher Kirche und Kuppel auf einen so uneriinschten Fall schon eingeyichtet und bombenfest erbaut hatte.†   (source)
  • Do you know what Goethe said about our friend Copernicus?†   (source)
  • I keep thinking of the lines from Goethe ….†   (source)
  • --Goethe 1 .†   (source)
  • Immediately there was a chorus: 'Idealism, mysticism, Goethe's Naturphilosophie, neo-Schellingism.'†   (source)
  • Or Mephistopheles—in Goethe's Faust 'Was soil uns denn das ew'ge Schaffen!†   (source)
  • Do you understand what Goethe was saying?†   (source)
  • "Himmelhoch jauchzend, zu Tode betru'bt"* [* A famous line from Goethe: "On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.†   (source)
  • The theme of unrequited love was introduced as early as 1774 by Goethe in his novel The Sorrows of Young Werther.†   (source)
  • She liked the quote from Goethe: "He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth."†   (source)
  • Besides, I know of a man from England—a modest man—who for me is no less great than Goethe.†   (source)
  • That young woman is the greatest literary genius since Goethe.†   (source)
  • Goethe honoured them; Mussolini despises them.†   (source)
  • For the first time I understood Goethe's laughter, the laughter of the immortals.†   (source)
  • I talked with him for scarcely an hour, but during that hour he was Goethe ….†   (source)
  • "Let us hope," said I, "that Goethe did not really look like this.†   (source)
  • Well, it was a picture representing Goethe, the poet Goethe, you know.†   (source)
  • Then it came to me that it was Goethe who was to receive me.†   (source)
  • The dream about Goethe came back to me at that moment.†   (source)
  • The air, too, around us was now ringing with melodies, all of them songs of Goethe's.†   (source)
  • Then at the last moment she turned once more and said: "I'll tell you something else—about Goethe.†   (source)
  • Goethe, however, said very amiably: "It may be unforgivable that I lived to be eighty-two.†   (source)
  • Will you never be done—with your Goethe?†   (source)
  • With that I got up and took leave of Goethe and of the professor.†   (source)
  • I don't say this to justify you in your ill temper and rage with the picture of Goethe.†   (source)
  • Yes, and how well the aged Goethe of my dreams fitted in too!†   (source)
  • After three weeks it was no longer incomprehensible to us that a braided postman should have more authority over us than had formerly our parents, our teachers, and the whole gamut of culture from Plato to Goethe.†   (source)
  • This is the guiding power that runs through the work of Dante in the female figures of Beatrice and the Virgin, and appears in Goethe's Faust successively as Gretchen, Helen of Troy, and the Virgin.†   (source)
  • Goethe pronounced Shakespeare a great poet, whereupon all the other critics flocked after him like a troop of parrots, and the general infatuation has lasted ever since.†   (source)
  • A complete edition of Goethe and one of Jean Paul showed signs of wear, also Novalis, while Lessing, Jacobi and Lichtenberg were in the same condition.†   (source)
  • Goethe was.†   (source)
  • Tjaden retorts in the well-known phrase from Goethe's "Gotz von Berlichingen," with which he is always free.†   (source)
  • Goethe presents the masculine guide in Faust as Mephistopheles—and not infrequently the dangerous aspect of the "mercurial" figure is stressed; for he is the lurer of the innocent soul into realms of trial.†   (source)
  • There were the biographies: Johnson and Goethe and Carlyle and Sterne and Cowper and Shelley and Voltaire and Browning and many others.†   (source)
  • And without being Dr Johnson or Goethe or Carlyle or Voltaire, one may feel, though very differently from these great men, the nature of this intricacy and the power of this highly developed creative faculty among women.†   (source)
  • It was an engraving and it represented the poet Goethe as an old man full of character, with a finely chiseled face and a genius' mane.†   (source)
  • My ill-humor over this increased until by degrees it extended even to Goethe, whom I suddenly treated to all manner of reflections and reproaches.†   (source)
  • I noticed, for example, learned sir, that you felt a slight embarrassment when it came to telling me your Goethe story.†   (source)
  • In this chaste drawing room Goethe would certainly never have allowed himself to use an outrageous, a genuine and unqualified expression.†   (source)
  • Unfortunately it is a habit, a vice of mine, always to speak my mind as much as possible, as indeed Goethe did, too, in his better moments.†   (source)
  • There stood old Goethe, short and very erect, and on his classic breast, sure enough, was the corpulent star of some Order.†   (source)
  • Then I remembered the scorpion, or Molly, rather, and I called out to Goethe: "Tell me, is Molly there?"†   (source)
  • There you will find your Goethe again and Novalis and Mozart, and I my saints, Christopher, Philip of Neri and all.†   (source)
  • So I had settled accounts with Goethe.†   (source)
  • Goethe seemed to read my thought, and even to have wanted to cause this deep timidity, this hectic struggle between desire and dread.†   (source)
  • Perhaps she might not understand everything of my spiritual life, might not perhaps follow me in my relation to music, to Goethe, to Novalis or Baudelaire.†   (source)
  • I often see pictures of them and of the Savior and the Virgin—such utterly lying and false and silly pictures—and I can put up with them just as little as you could with that picture of Goethe.†   (source)
  • In any case, and whatever the cause, this empty and self-satisfied presentation of the aged Goethe shrieked at me at once as a fatal discord, exasperated and oppressed as I was already.†   (source)
  • But the artist who adores Goethe too, and makes a picture of him, has no right to do it, nor the professor either, nor anybody else—because you don't like it.†   (source)
  • But in the first place it made me sorry because of Goethe, whom I love very dearly, and then, besides, I thought—well, I had better say just how I thought, or felt.†   (source)
  • And if you still think it worth your while we can philosophize together and argue and talk about music and Mozart and Gluck and Plato and Goethe to your heart's content.†   (source)
  • And Goethe's face was rosy and youthful, and he laughed; and now he resembled Mozart like a brother, now Schubert, and the star on his breast was composed entirely of wild flowers.†   (source)
  • At that he bent forward and brought his mouth, which had now become quite like a child's, close to my ear and whispered softly into it: "You take the old Goethe much too seriously, my young friend.†   (source)
  • I was forced to recall my dream of Goethe and that vision of the old wiseacre when he laughed so inhumanly and played his joke on me in the fashion of the immortals.†   (source)
  • "And so," she began again, "Goethe has been dead a hundred years, and you're very fond of him, and you have a wonderful picture in your head of what he must have looked like, and you have the right to, I suppose.†   (source)
  • He himself, the old Harry, had been just such a bourgeois idealization of Goethe, a spiritual champion whose all-too-noble gaze shone with the unction of elevated thought and humanity, until he was almost overcome by his own nobleness of mind!†   (source)
  • The late Herr Haller, gifted writer, student of Mozart and Goethe, author of essays upon the metaphysics of art, upon genius and tragedy and humanity, the melancholy hermit in a cell encumbered with books, was given over bit by bit to self-criticism and at every point was found wanting.†   (source)
  • The lady of the house finished pouring out the coffee with a deeply wounded expression and then hurriedly left the room; and her husband explained to me with mingled embarrassment and reproach that the picture of Goethe belonged to his wife and was one of her dearest possessions.†   (source)
  • Also I was not very sure whether I had been announced by a mistake to Matthisson instead of to Goethe, and him again I mixed up in my dream with Birger, for I took him for the author of the poem to Molly.†   (source)
  • He had loved Erica and Maria, and had been Hermine's friend, and shot down motorcars, and slept with the sleek Chinese, and encountered Mozart and Goethe, and made sundry holes in the web of time and rents in reality's disguise, though it held him a prisoner still.†   (source)
  • Like all great spirits, Herr von Goethe, you have clearly recognised and felt the riddle and the hopelessness of human life, with its moments of transcendence that sink again to wretchedness, and the impossibility of rising to one fair peak of feeling except at the cost of many days' enslavement to the daily round; and, then, the ardent longing for the realm of the spirit in eternal and deadly war with the equally ardent and holy love of the lost innocence of nature, the whole…†   (source)
  • Our whole civilization was a cemetery where Jesus Christ and Socrates, Mozart and Haydn, Dante and Goethe were but the indecipherable names on moldering stones; and the mourners who stood round affecting a pretence of sorrow would give much to believe in these inscriptions which once were holy, or at least to utter one heart-felt word of grief and despair about this world that is no more.†   (source)
  • Goethe had been with me.†   (source)
  • Goethe laughed aloud.†   (source)
  • There I was, sitting with people as one of themselves and believing that they thought of Goethe as I did and had the same picture of him in their minds as I, and there stood that tasteless, false and sickly affair and they thought it lovely and had not the least idea that the spirit of that picture and the spirit of Goethe were exact opposites.†   (source)
  • O Goethe!†   (source)
  • …or to the mask of him that was already falling away, clung to his coquetting with the spiritual, to his bourgeois horror of the disorderly and accidental (to which death, too, belonged) and compared the new Harry—the somewhat timid and ludicrous dilettante of the dance rooms—scornfully and enviously with the old one in whose ideal and lying portrait he had since discovered all those fatal characteristics which had upset him that night so grievously in the professor's print of Goethe.†   (source)
  • Goethe said that every bon mot of his had cost a purse of gold.†   (source)
  • "What on earth is the use of suddenly running down Goethe," he declared to Alec and Tom.†   (source)
  • It was the period in Germany of Goethe's highest fame.†   (source)
  • To be a scientist is like being a Goethe: it is born in you.†   (source)
  • I read somewhere that Goethe said something in his bedroom one night to his valet—†   (source)
  • The poet must know how to hate, says Goethe; and Will was at least ready with that accomplishment.†   (source)
  • I saw Goethe's house, Schiller's statue, and Dannecker's famous 'Ariadne.'†   (source)
  • —ECKERMANN'S CONVERSATIONS WITH GOETHE.†   (source)
  • I took the greatest delight in these German books, especially Schiller's wonderful lyrics, the history of Frederick the Great's magnificent achievements and the account of Goethe's life.†   (source)
  • Every time he speaks of the weather you jump him because he ain't talking about poetry or Gertie—Goethe?†   (source)
  • Bunyan, Blake, Hogarth and Turner (these four apart and above all the English Classics), Goethe, Shelley, Schopenhaur, Wagner, Ibsen, Morris, Tolstoy, and Nietzsche are among the writers whose peculiar sense of the world I recognize as more or less akin to my own.†   (source)
  • McKisco was "well-informed" on a range of subjects wider than Goethe's—it was interesting to listen to the innumerable facile combinations that he referred to as his opinions.†   (source)
  • —Goethe and Lessing, said Donovan, have written a lot on that subject, the classical school and the romantic school and all that.†   (source)
  • He had spent a winter in Florence and a winter in Rome, and now was passing his second summer abroad in Germany so that he might read Goethe in the original.†   (source)
  • Goethe's Faust and Mozart's Don Juan were the last words of the XVIII century on the subject; and by the time the polite critics of the XIX century, ignoring William Blake as superficially as the XVIII had ignored Hogarth or the XVII Bunyan, had got past the Dickens-Macaulay Dumas-Guizot stage and the Stendhal-Meredith-Turgenieff stage, and were confronted with philosophic fiction by such pens as Ibsen's and Tolstoy's, Don Juan had changed his sex and become Dona Juana, breaking out of…†   (source)
  • After the lectures at the university he used to argue this point with a young Rumanian intellectual who reassured him: "There's no evidence that Goethe ever had a 'conflict' in the modern sense, or a man like Jung, for instance.†   (source)
  • "People will shout," said Alec quietly, "but Goethe's on his same old shelf in the library—to bore any one that wants to read him!"†   (source)
  • And he also mentioned Goethe, who, though rooted in pietism and most assuredly a Protestant, had also had a strong Catholic side, evident in his objectivism, his doctrine of the active life, and his defense of private confession—as a teacher he had been virtually a Jesuit.†   (source)
  • This thought pervades all German literature and is mystically expressed in Goethe's "Faust": All things transitory But as symbols are sent.†   (source)
  • Mozart's is the last of the true Don Juans; for by the time he was of age, his cousin Faust had, in the hands of Goethe, taken his place and carried both his warfare and his reconciliation with the gods far beyond mere lovemaking into politics, high art, schemes for reclaiming new continents from the ocean, and recognition of an eternal womanly principle in the universe.†   (source)
  • So you do not know those thespian faces that can embody the features of a Julius Caesar, a Goethe, and a Beethoven all in one, but whose owners, the moment they open their mouths, prove to be the most miserable ninnies under the sun.†   (source)
  • But one mark of a writer's greatness is that different minds can find in him different inspirations; and Professor Erlin, who hated the Prussians, gave his enthusiastic admiration to Goethe because his works, Olympian and sedate, offered the only refuge for a sane mind against the onslaughts of the present generation.†   (source)
  • He was where Goethe was when he began "Faust"; he was where Conrad was when he wrote "Almayer's Folly."†   (source)
  • In the French course I read some of the works of Corneille, Moliere, Racine, Alfred de Musset and Sainte-Beuve, and in the German those of Goethe and Schiller.†   (source)
  • But Hugo and Goethe and Schiller and all great poets of all great nations are interpreters of eternal things, and my spirit reverently follows them into the regions where Beauty and Truth and Goodness are one.†   (source)
  • In German I read, partly with my fingers and partly with Miss Sullivan's assistance, Schiller's "Lied von der Glocke" and "Taucher," Heine's "Harzreise," Freytag's "Aus dem Staat Friedrichs des Grossen," Riehl's "Fluch Der Schonheit," Lessing's "Minna von Barnhelm," and Goethe's "Aus meinem Leben."†   (source)
  • In former days there were some here and there; they had—well, Schiller, to be sure, Goethe …. my brother—he takes a particularly favourable view of them….†   (source)
  • Goethe recommended seeing human nature in the most various forms, and Mr. Babcock thought Goethe perfectly splendid.†   (source)
  • Cavalcanti, dressed in black, like one of Goethe's heroes, with varnished shoes and white silk open-worked stockings, passed a white and tolerably nice-looking hand through his light hair, and so displayed a sparkling diamond, that in spite of Monte Cristo's advice the vain young man had been unable to resist putting on his little finger.†   (source)
  • But I cannot admit that the class represented by Eschylus, Sophocles, Aristophanes, Euripides, Shakespear, Goethe, Ibsen, and Tolstoy, not to mention our own contemporary playwrights, is as much in place in Mr Redford's office as a pickpocket is in Bow Street.†   (source)
  • Hence Moore, Byron, Goethe, often speak words more wisely descriptive of the true religious sentiment, than another man, whose whole life is governed by it.†   (source)
  • Horace was one of them; so was Goethe.†   (source)
  • …her husband was a Colonel of the Guard, Excellenz and Governor of an island, only separated from his lady by one of those trifling differences which are of little account in a country where Werther is still read and the Wahlverwandtschaften of Goethe is considered an edifying moral book, nobody thought of refusing to receive her in the very highest society of the little Duchy; and the ladies were even more ready to call her du and to swear eternal friendship for her than they had been…†   (source)
  • Goethe, in this very thing the most modern of the moderns, has shown us, as none ever did, the genius of the ancients.†   (source)
  • As devout Eckerman lifted the linen sheet from the naked corpse of Goethe, he was overwhelmed with the massive chest of the man, that seemed as a Roman triumphal arch.†   (source)
  • This idea has inspired the genius of Goldsmith,[82] Burns,[83] Cowper,[84] and, in a newer time, of Goethe,[85] Wordsworth,[86] and Carlyle.†   (source)
  • As Goethe, when he had a joy or a grief, put it into a song, so Laurie resolved to embalm his love sorrow in music, and to compose a Requiem which should harrow up Jo's soul and melt the heart of every hearer.†   (source)
  • Goethe's Tasso[676] is very likely to be a pretty fair historical portrait, and that is true tragedy.†   (source)
  • Coleridge[616] and Goethe[617] are the only critics who have expressed our convictions with any adequate fidelity; but there is in all cultivated minds a silent appreciation of his superlative power and beauty, which, like Christianity, qualifies the period.†   (source)
  • One always feels that Goethe's judgments are so true.†   (source)
  • There's a saying of Goethe's which Mr Magee likes to quote.†   (source)
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