"A genuine work of art usually displeases..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths.”

“A person hears only what they understand.”

“He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line.”

“The only really committed artist is he who, without refusing to take part in the combat, at least refuses to join the regular armies and remains a freelance.”

“He alone is great who turns the voice of the wind into a song made sweeter by his own loving.”

“For poets (bear the word) Half-poets even, are still whole democrats.”

“We hear and apprehend only what we already half know.”

“Why, he wondered, did people who had been asleep always want to make out that they were extremely wide-awake?”

“Women are books, and men the readers be.”