What makes poetry? A full heart, brimful of one noble passion.

Variant translation: I feel what makes the poet, a full heart, filled entirely with one emotion

In: The Wisdom of Goethe (ed. 1883). From: Franz, in Gotz von Berlichingen (1773)

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

What makes poetry? A full heart, brimful of one noble passion.

What makes poetry? A full heart, brimful of one noble passion.

What makes poetry? A full heart, brimful of one noble passion.

What makes poetry? A full heart, brimful of one noble passion.