Personality is everything in art and poetry.... -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Writer
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes to Explore

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do....
Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking....
There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings....
Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable....
Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago....
Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men....
Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him....
Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this....
Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words....
I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should....

Poetry Quotes to Explore

In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and people like that. At first I was interested in seeing what they were up t...
I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now....
I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry....
However, I learned something. I thought that if the young person, the student, has poetry in him or her, to offer them help is like offering a propell...
And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn't think so....
And if they haven't got poetry in them, there's nothing you can do that will produce it....
All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side, that's the prose side, that's the fishing and miscellaneous be...
Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry....
Most people can't tell now who wrote what. I like that blurring of identities within the band. because it becomes a unified thing that can't be relate...
In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre; they are, at the same t...