Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Birth

• What is now the foliage moving?
  Air is still, and hush'd the breeze,
  Sultriness, this fullness loving,
  Through the thicket, from the trees.
  Now the eye at once gleams brightly,
  See! the infant band with mirth
  Moves and dances nimbly, lightly,
  As the morning gave it birth,
  Flutt'ring two and two o'er earth.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Morning, Spring, Moving

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, “May”

• The realization of the self is only possible if one is productive, if one can give birth to one's own potentialities.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Self, Giving, Accountability

• I am a part of the part that at first was all, part of the darkness that gave birth to the light, that supercilious light which now disputes with Mother Night her ancient rank and space, and yet cannot succeed; no matter how it struggles, it sticks to matter and can't get free. Light flows from substance, makes it beautiful.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Beautiful, Mother, Struggle

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1941). “Goethe's Faust”

• I am part of the part that once was everything, Part of the darkness which gave birth to light… Mephistopheles, from Faust.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Light, Darkness, Birth

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