Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann
Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann
English | May 18th, 2014 | ASIN: B00KFMKUNU, ISBN: 0306808811 | 448 pages | EPUB | 0.66 MB
English | May 18th, 2014 | ASIN: B00KFMKUNU, ISBN: 0306808811 | 448 pages | EPUB | 0.66 MB
"THIS collection of Conversations with Goethe took its rise chiefly from an impulse, natural to my mind, to appropriate to myself by writing any part of my experience which strikes me as valuable or remarkable.
Moreover, I felt constantly the need of instruction, not only when I first met with that extraordinary man, but also after I had lived with him for years; and I loved to seize on the import of his words, and to note it down, that I might possess them for the rest of my life.
When I think how rich and full were the communications by which he made me so happy for a period of nine years, and now observe how small a part I have retained in writing, I seem to myself like a child who, endeavouring to catch the refreshing spring shower with open hands, finds that the greater part of it runs through his fingers.
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