Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Something Like the Sun

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Something Like the Sun

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by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(1749 - 1832) Timeline

English version by
John White

Original Language
German

Secular or Eclectic

18th Century

The eye must be something like the sun,
Otherwise no sunlight could be seen;
God's own power must be inside us,
How else could Godly things delight us?

-- from Art & Wonder: An Illustrated Anthology of Visionary Poetry, Edited by Kate Farrell

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Themes

Bliss

Sun

Recommended Books

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

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