J. W. Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – Roman Elegies V

Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, Mars and Venus, 1770 If my darling is stealing the day’s hours from me, she gives me hours of night in compensation.We’re not always kissing: we often talk sense: when she’s asleep, I lie there filled with thought.Often I’ve even made poetry there in her arms, counted hexameters gently there on my fingers over her body. She …

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – Forma e Poesia /Poetry and Form

Nicolas Poussin, The Exposition of Moses, 1654 Let the Greek mould his clay  to the forms he’s planned,  and take increasing pleasure  in the product of his hands:  but to us it’s blissful when  we clutch at the Euphrates,  and in the flowing element,  swish to and fro, with ease. Quenching, so, my burning soul, …

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