“And when I look around the apartment where I now am,—when I see Charlotte’s apparel lying before me, and Albert’s writings, and all those articles of furniture which are so familiar to me, even to the very inkstand which I am using,—when I think what I am to this family—everything. My friends esteem me; IContinue reading “Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther Excerpt about love”
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The Sorrows of Young Werther (Classics) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
So this is not among my usual reads but I thought if I stuck it in Audiobook format, it will be nice to listen to on the way in and out from #covid work.
The Holy Longing by Goethe
“Tell a wise person, or else keep silent, because the mass man will mock it right away. I praise what is truly alive, what longs to be burned to death. In the calm water of the love-nights, where you were begotten, where you have begotten, a strange feeling comes over you, when you see theContinue reading “The Holy Longing by Goethe”
LOVELY WATER LILLY BY JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
Im Wasser wogt die Lilie, die blanke, hin und her, Doch irrst du, Freund, sobald du sagst, sie schwanke hin und her: Es wurzelt ja so fest ihr Fuß im tiefen Meeresgrund, Ihr Haupt nur wiegt ein lieblicher Gedanke hin und her! Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German writer, pictorial artist, biologist, theoretical physicist,Continue reading “LOVELY WATER LILLY BY JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE”
One Day – One Love Poem – Proximity of the Beloved One
Nähe des Geliebten Nearness of the Beloved One Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Translation by Hyde Flippo Ich denke dein, wenn mir der Sonne schimmer I think of you, when I see the sun’s shimmer Vom Meere strahlt; Gleaming from the sea. Ich denke dein, wenn sich des Mondes Flimmer I think of you, when theContinue reading “One Day – One Love Poem – Proximity of the Beloved One”
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