"The first and last thing required of..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth.[Ger., Das erste und letzte, was vom Genie gefordert wird, ist Wahreits-Liebe.]
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“There is a great difference, whether the poet seeks the particular for the sake of the general or sees the general in the particular. From the former procedure there ensues allegory, in which the particular serves only as illustration, as example of the general. The latter procedure, however, is genuinely the nature of poetry; it expresses something particular, without thinking of the general or pointing to it.”
“The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.”
“Nothing will change the fact that I cannot produce the least thing without absolute solitude.”
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“But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.”