Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes about Poetry

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True art can only spring from the intimate linking of the serious and the playful.

True art can only spring from the intimate linking of the serious and the playful.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Art, Spring, Poetry

The question "From where does the poet get it?" addresses only the what, nobody learns anything about the how when asking that question.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poetry, Doe, Asking

If you want to understand poetry, You have to go to its origin, If you want to understand the poet, You have to go to the Poet's home.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Home, Poetry, Want

The true poet is called to take in the splendor of the world and for that reason will always be inclined to praise rather than tofind fault.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poetry, World, Faults

What makes poetry? A full heart, brimful of one noble passion.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Passion, Heart, Poetry

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Stuart Blackie (1883). “The Wisdom of Goethe”, Edinburgh, W. Blackwood

After all, poets shouldn't be their own interpreters and shouldn't carefully dissect their poems into everyday prose; that would mean the end of being poets. Poets send their creations into the world, it is up to the reader, the aesthetician, and the critic to determine what they wanted to say with their creations.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Mean, Poetry, Everyday