“Two souls alas! dwell in my breast.”
Zwey Seelen wohnen, ach! in meiner Brust.
Outside the Gate of the Town
Faust, Part 1 (1808)
“In the nine heavens are eight Paradises;
Where is the ninth one? In the human breast.
Only the blessed dwell in th' Paradises,
But blessedness dwells in the human breast.”
"The Ninth Paradise", p. 223.
Poetry of the Orient, 1865 edition
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