Goethe's Poems and Aphorisms
Categories: Literature & Fiction
This collection gathers poems and aphorisms by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the German writer of Faust and The Sorrows of Young Werther. The poems range across love, nature and philosophy, while the aphorisms offer short reflections on life, art, science, character and wisdom. Reprinted from an older edition, the selection gives readers a compact introduction to Goethe's thought and to the voice of one of the central figures of European literature.
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- Shane Parrish: “A lot of the poems were lost on me. The aphorisms, however, were well worth the price of the book. Piercing, insightful, and generally still as relevant today as when they were written, they should be read in small batches and not all at once”