Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Birds

• One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Summer, Nature, Children

• Over all the mountain tops is peace. In all treetops you perceive scarcely a breath. The little birds in the forest are silent. Wait then; soon, you too, will have peace.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Peace, Meditation, Bird

• Everything perfect in its kind has to transcend its own kind, it must become something different and incomparable. In some notes the nightingale is still a bird; then it rises above its class and seems to suggest to every winged creature what singing is truly like.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Class, Perfect, Bird

• Every bird has its decoy, and every man is led and misled in his own peculiar way.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Bird, Temptation

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