 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann - Authors, German - 1850 - 472 pages
...that it is treated by a poet. All my poems are occasional poems, suggested by real life, and having therein a firm foundation. I attach no value to poems snatched out of the air. " Let no one say that reality wants poetical interest; for in this the poet proves his vocation, that... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1851 - 838 pages
...that it is treated by a poet, All my poems are occasional poems, suggested by real life, and having therein a firm foundation. I attach no value to poems snatched out of the air." The same thought i> happily expressed 60 Miscellaneous Rerietcs. 61 in the lion which he prefixed to... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1880 - 460 pages
...with a remark of Goethe's mentioned by Eckermann in his ' Conversations with Goethe :' " All my poems are ' occasional' poems, suggested by real life, and...questions and remarks of the Prince, when the cold of the day-break drove us towards a bivouac of the Austrians, which had been kept up the whole night, and... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1883 - 884 pages
...that it is treated by a poet. All my poems are occasional poems, suggested by real life, and having therein a firm foundation. I attach no value to poems snatched out of the air. " Let no one say that reality wants poetical interest ; for it! this the poet proves his vocation,... | |
 | Halkett Lord, Richard Halkett - American literature - 1886 - 432 pages
...that it Is touched by a poet. All my poems are occasional poems, suggested by real life, and having therein a firm foundation. I attach no value to poems snatched out of the air. this sense the "Nibelungenlied" is as classic as the "Iliad," for both are vigorous and healtny. Most... | |
 | Kuno Francke, William Guild Howard - English literature - 1913 - 590 pages
...that it is treated by a poet. All my poems are occasional poems, suggested by real life, and having therein a firm foundation. I attach no value to poems snatched out of the air. " Let no one say that reality wants poetical interest; for in this the poet proves his vocation, that... | |
 | Kuno Francke, Isidore Singer - English literature - 1913 - 582 pages
...that it is treated by a poet. All my poems are occasional poems, suggested by real life, and having therein a firm foundation. I attach no value to poems snatched out of the air. " Let no one say that reality wants poetical interest; for in this the poet proves his vocation, that... | |
 | Coventry Patmore - English literature - 1921 - 220 pages
...that it is touched by a poet. All my poems are occasional poems, suggested by real life, and having therein a firm foundation. I attach no value to poems snatched out of the air. I call the classic healthy and the romantic sickly. In this sense the Nibelungenlied is as classic... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Literary Criticism - 1921 - 326 pages
...that it is treated by a poet. All my poems are occasional poems, suggested by real life, and having therein a firm foundation. I attach no value to poems snatched out of the air. Let no one say that reality wants poetical interest; for in this the poet proves his vocation, that... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Literary Criticism - 1921 - 316 pages
...that it is treated by a poet. All my poems are occasional poems, suggested by real life, and having therein a firm foundation. I attach no value to poems snatched out of the air. Let no one say that reality wants poetical interest ; for in this the poet proves his vocation, that... | |
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... poems. But they must all be occasional* poems; that is to say, reality must give both impulse and material for their production. A particular case becomes universal and poetic by the very circumstance that it is treated by a poet. All my poems are... 
