Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote

Literature is the fragment of fragments; only the least amount of what has happened and has been spoken was written down, the least of what has been recorded in writing has survived.


Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years (1821), bk. II, Reflections in the Spirit of the Wanderers


Literature is the fragment of fragments; only the least amount of what has happened and has been spoken was written down, the least of what has been...

Literature is the fragment of fragments; only the least amount of what has happened and has been spoken was written down, the least of what has been...

Literature is the fragment of fragments; only the least amount of what has happened and has been spoken was written down, the least of what has been...

Literature is the fragment of fragments; only the least amount of what has happened and has been spoken was written down, the least of what has been...