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Goethe

«We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning.»
«Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.»
Author: Guy Davenport | About: Reading | Keywords: Goethe, paralyzing, suspicion
«Goethe once said of someone, He is a dull man. If he were a book, I would not read him.»
Author: James Bryce | Keywords: Goethe
«Goethe said, 'Talent is developed in privacy, ' you know?And it's really true. There is a need for aloneness which I don't think most people realize for an actor. It's almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you'll let the whole world in on only for a moment, when you're acting.»
«Try to imagine a Shakespeare beset by fundamentalism, or a Goethe trying to work with the Ku Klux Klan roaring under his door»
«It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.»
«Close thy Byron; open thy Goethe.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle (Essayist, Historian) | Keywords: Byron, Goethe