Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes about Spring

Our destiny often looks like a fruit-tree in winter. Who would think from its pitiable aspect that those rigid boughs, those rough twigs could next spring again be green, bloom, and even bear fruit? Yet we hope it, we

Our destiny often looks like a fruit-tree in winter. Who would think from its pitiable aspect that those rigid boughs, those rough twigs could next spring again be green, bloom, and even bear fruit? Yet we hope it, we know it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Spring, Winter, Thinking

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.980, Delphi Classics

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Art, Spring, Poetry

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life, Spring, Tree

True happiness springs from moderation. [Ger., Aus Massigkeit entspringt ein reines Gluck.]

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Spring, True Happiness, Moderation

What is now the foliage moving? Air is still, and hush'd the breeze, Sultriness, this fullness loving, Through the thicket, from the trees. Now the eye at once gleams brightly, See! the infant band with mirth Moves and dances nimbly, lightly, As the morning gave it birth, Flutt'ring two and two o'er earth.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Morning, Spring, Moving

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, “May”

Our virtues and view spring from one root.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Spring, Views, Roots

So then the year is repeating its old story again. We are come once more, thank God! to its most charming chapter. The violets and the Mayflowers are as its inscriptions or vignettes. It always makes a pleasant impression on us, when we open again at these pages of the book of life.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Spring, Book, Years

Out of moderation a pure happiness springs.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Happiness, Spring, Moderation

"When did moderate become a political dirty word?" by Bob Greene, www.cnn.com. April 1, 2012.

True happiness springs from moderation.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Spring, True Happiness, Moderation

"Die Naturliche Tochter". II. 5. 79, 1803.

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love, Spring, Heart

The bed of flowers Loosens amain, The beauteous snowdrops Droop o'er the plain. The crocus opens Its glowing bud, Like emeralds others, Others, like blood. With saucy gesture Primroses flare, And roguish violets, Hidden with care; And whatsoever There stirs and strives, The Spring's contented, If works and thrives.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Spring, Flower, Glowing

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.2888, Delphi Classics

This world could not exist if it were not so simple. The ground has been tilled a thousand years, yet its powers remain ever the same; a little rain, a little sun, and each spring it grows green again.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nature, Spring, Rain

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1839). “Conversations with Goethe in the Last Years of His Life”, p.209

Assuredly there is no more lovely worship of God than that for which no image is required, but which springs up in our breast spontaneously when nature speaks to the soul, and the soul speaks to nature face to face.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nature, Spring, Soul

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