Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Songs

• Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Song, Intelligence

• One ought, everyday, to hear a song, read a fine poem, and, if possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Song, Everyday, Speak

• Deny yourself! You must deny yourself! That is the song that never ends.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Success, Song

  'Faust' pt. 1 (1808) 'Studierzimmer'

• And those whom once my song had cheered and gladdened, If still they live, rove through the world now saddened.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Song, World, Saddened

• Whether one show one's self a man of genius in science or compose a song, the only point is, whether the thought, the discovery, the deed, is living and can live on.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Song, Science, Men

• You shall abstain, shall abstain. That is the eternal song.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Song, Eternal

• Rash combat oft immortalizes man; if he should fall, he is renowned in song; but after-ages reckon not the ceaseless tears which the forsaken woman sheds. Poets tell us not of the many nights consumed in weeping, or of the dreary days wherein her anguished soul vainly yearns to call her loved one back.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Song, Fall, Night

• Men are so inclined to content themselves with what is commonest; the spirit and the senses so easily grow dead to the impressions of the beautiful and perfect, that every one should study, by all methods, to nourish in his mind the faculty of feeling these things. ...For this reason, one ought every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Beautiful, Song, Men

  Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre bk. 5, ch. 1 (1795 - 1796)

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