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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
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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Thus I reel from desire to fulfillment and in fulfillment languish for desire.
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The march of intellect, which licks all the world into shape, has even reached the devil.
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