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Secular or Eclectic
18th Century

About Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Timeline (1749 - 1832)

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English version by
Peter Salm

Original Language
German
Is parchment then the sacred fount (from Faust)

 
 
 
 
 

 

Recommended Books

Faust, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe / Translated by Peter Salm
News of the Universe: Poems of Twofold Consciousness, Edited by Robert Bly

Is parchment then the sacred fount
from which a draught will quench our thirst forever?
You must draw it from your inward soul
or else you'll not be satisfied.

 

 

-- from Faust, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe / Translated by Peter Salm

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