Quotes from bookRoman Elegies
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheOriginal title Römische Elegien (German)
The Roman Elegies is a cycle of twenty-four poems by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
“A world without love would be no world.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe book Roman Elegies
Elegy 2
Roman Elegies (1789)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe book Roman Elegies
Elegy 1
Roman Elegies (1789)
Context: I'm gazing at church and palace, ruin and column,
Like a serious man making sensible use of a journey,
But soon it will happen, and all will be one vast temple,
Love's temple, receiving its new initiate.
Though you're a whole world, Rome, still, without Love,
The world isn't the world, and Rome can't be Rome.
