Friday, March 26, 2010

Quote of the Day (Goethe, on Humility)


“The masters’ works I look upon,
And I can see what they have done;
When looking upon this or that by me,
What I should have done is what I see.”—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, “Humility” (1815), in Selected Works (Everyman’s Library Edition)

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