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German polymath (one who excels in many fields) best remembered for his writing — especially the play Faust (1749-1832)

Goethe said that every bon mot of his had cost a purse of gold.
Upton Sinclair -- The Jungle

I keep thinking of the lines from Goethe ....
Michael Ondaatje -- Running in the Family
Horace was one of them; so was Goethe.
Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
—Goethe and Lessing, said Donovan, have written a lot on that subject, the classical school and the romantic school and all that.
James Joyce -- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Immediately there was a chorus: 'Idealism, mysticism, Goethe's Naturphilosophie, neo-Schellingism.'
Boris Pasternak -- Doctor Zhivago
I saw Goethe's house, Schiller's statue, and Dannecker's famous 'Ariadne.'
Louisa May Alcott -- Little Women
To be a scientist is like being a Goethe: it is born in you.
Sinclair Lewis -- Arrowsmith
"What on earth is the use of suddenly running down Goethe," he declared to Alec and Tom.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- This Side of Paradise
Every time he speaks of the weather you jump him because he ain't talking about poetry or Gertie—Goethe?
Sinclair Lewis -- Main Street
Do you know what Goethe said about our friend Copernicus?
Henry H. Neff -- The Second Siege
I read somewhere that Goethe said something in his bedroom one night to his valet—
Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain
The German poet Goethe once said that "he who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth."
Jostein Gaarder -- Sophie's World
That young woman is the greatest literary genius since Goethe.
Ayn Rand -- The Fountainhead
A half hour later, Werner and Frederick are reading Goethe in poetics.
Anthony Doerr -- All the Light We Cannot See
The poet must know how to hate, says Goethe; and Will was at least ready with that accomplishment.
George Eliot -- Middlemarch
Goethe honoured them; Mussolini despises them.
Virginia Woolf -- A Room of One's Own
Here they were, gathered at one table, the nation's foremost practitioners of what Goethe and Schelling called "frozen music."
Erik Larson -- The Devil in the White City
Besides, I know of a man from England—a modest man—who for me is no less great than Goethe.
Jorge Luis Borges -- The Garden of Forking Paths
Goethe recommended seeing human nature in the most various forms, and Mr. Babcock thought Goethe perfectly splendid.
Henry James -- The American
Father has taken the plays of Goethe and Schiller down from the big bookcase and is planning to read to me every evening.
Anne Frank -- The Diary of a Young Girl

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