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Homer, Vergil, Dante, Shakespeare, Goethe, Proust - not exactly authors one expects to whiz through or take lightly, but like all works of genius, they are meant to be read out loud and loved.

~Andre Aciman

Topics: Authors Exactly Expects Genius Goethe Homer Lightly Like Loud Loved Meant Meant To Be Out Read Shakespeare Take Through Works

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Duane lived life right on the edge. If you ever read Goethe's Faust, Duane Allman was very much that kind of figure. His deal with Mephistopheles was to experience everything life has to offer, good and bad.

~Butch Trucks

Topics: Bad Deal Edge Ever Everything Experience Figure Goethe Good Good And Bad His Kind Life Lived Much Offer Read Right Very You

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When I'm working with German audiences, I will call on my Rilke and Goethe in the original.

~David Whyte

Topics: Audiences Call German Goethe Original Will Working

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Music is the same to me as it was to Goethe - a pleasant noise. I am an eye man, not an ear man.

~Fritz Lang

Topics: Am Ear Eye Goethe Man Me Music Noise Pleasant Same I Am

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From the beginning, about the rude altar of the god, to the days of Goethe, of Leopardi, and of Victor Hugo, the poet is the leader in the dance of life; and the phrase by which we name his singularity, the poetic temperament, denotes the primacy of that passion in his blood with which the frame of other men is less richly charged.

~George Edward Woodberry

Topics: About Altar Beginning Blood Charged Dance Days Frame God Goethe His Hugo Leader Less Life Men Name Other Passion Phrase Poet Poetic Rude Singularity Temperament Victor Which

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We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning.

~George Steiner

Topics: Auschwitz Bach Day Evening Go Goethe He His Know Man Morning Play Read Work

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