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If a poet would work politically, he must give himself up to a party and so soon as he does that, he is lost as a poet.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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