Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Water
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Wind is the loving Wooer of waters; Wind blends together Billows all-foaming. Spirit of man, Thou art like unto water! Fortune of man, Thou art like unto wind!
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Water its living strength first shows, When obstacles its course oppose.
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All is born of water; all is sustained by water.
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The soul of man is like to water; from Heaven it cometh, to Heaven it riseth And then returning to earth, forever alternating.
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We must not hope to be mowers, And to gather the ripe gold ears, Unless we have first been sowers And water the furrows with tears. It is not just as we take it, This mystical world of ours, Life's field will yield as we make it A harvest of thorns or of flowers.
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Modern poets add a lot of water to their ink.
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Modern poets mix too much water with their ink. [Ger., Neuere Poeten thun viel Wasser in die Tinte.]
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