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Poet Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- At bottom, no real object is unpoetical, if the poet knows how to use it properly.
- If a poet would work politically, he must give himself up to a party; and so soon as he does that, he is lost as…
- The poet should seize the Particular, and he should, if there be anything sound in it, thus represent the Universal.
- Lord Byron is only great as a poet; as soon as he reflects he is a child.
- Modern poets add a lot of water to their ink.
- 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…
- Superstition is poetry of life, so that it does not injure the poet to be superstitious
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