Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Time does not relinquish its rights, either over human beings or over mountains.
Citations
von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Elective Affinities. Translated by James Anthony Froude and R. Dillon Boylan, Henry G. Bohn, 1854, p. 189.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre director, critic, and amateur artist. His works include: four novels; epic and lyric poetry; prose and verse dramas; memoirs; an autobiography; literary and aesthetic criticism; and treatises on botany, anatomy, and colour. He is considered to be the greatest German literary figure of the modern era.