Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote

All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible.


The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe (ed. 1906)


All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible.

All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible.

All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible.

All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible.