Quotes from Roman Elegies — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
1749–1832 Germany
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Though you're a whole world, Rome, still, without Love,
The world isn't the world, and Rome can't be Rome.
Roman Elegies (1789)
A world without love would be no world.
Roman Elegies (1789)
I'm gazing at church and palace, ruin and column,
Like a serious man making sensible use of a journey,
But soon it will happen, and all will be one vast temple,
Love's temple, receiving its new initiate.
Though you're a whole world, Rome, still, without Love,
The world isn't the world, and Rome can't be Rome.
Roman Elegies (1789)
Tell me you stones, O speak, you towering palaces!
Streets, say a word! Spirit of this place, are you dumb?
All things are alive in your sacred walls
Eternal Rome, it's only for me all is still.
Roman Elegies (1789)