#the sorrows of young werther

[safberry93]

The Sorrows Of Young Werther - Robert Gligorov

[derangedrhythms]

[…] my passions were never far from madness […]

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, from ‘The Sorrows of Young Werther’,  tr. David Constantine

[petaltexturedskies]

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the sorrows of young Werther

[llovelymoonn]

what art does for us

john berger and our faces, my heart, as brief as photos \\ larissa pham the limits of the viral book review \\ frantz (2016) dir. françois ozon \\ johann wolfgang von goethe the sorrows of young werther (tr. david constantine)

kofi

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[amicus-noctis]

“Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poster: "Zan Zig performing with rabbit and roses"

[tygerland]

Andy Warhol Goethe. 1982. Series of four screenprints: 96 × 96 cm (38 × 38 in) each.

[eternal--returned]

When the moisture rises in a mist in the sweet valley all around me and the high sun rests on the surface of the forest's impenetrable darkness and only occasional beams find their way into the inner sanctum and I lie in the tall grass by the tumbling stream and, thus close to the earth, become aware of the myriad varieties of grasses, and when I feel the seething of the world of small things among the stalks, feel against my heart the countless unfathomable shapes and forms of the tiny creatures that flit and crawl, and I feel the presence of the Almighty who created us in his image, the wafting breath of the Love that encompasses all, that upholds and sustains us in and eternal joy, oh my friend, at the dawning then before my eyes when the world and the heavens reside in my soul completely like the bodily shape of a beloved woman, then how I yearn and often have said to myself, Oh could you give that some answering expression, only breathe into the page what is so fully and warmly alive in you till it becomes the mirror of your soul just as your soul is the mirror of the unending diety!—Oh my friend!—But it will be the downfall of me, I lie defeated by the force of the splendour of these phenomena.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ֍ The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774)

[vanshaunas]

some quotes that i think you could find in shauna shipman’s journal (and they’re all about jackie taylor) :

“I sometimes cannot understand how she can love another, how she dares love another, when I love nothing in this world so completely, so devotedly, as I love her, when I know only her, and have no other possession.” - The Sorrows of Young Werther, J. W. Goethe

“My imagination can shape no other figure but hers; I see everything around me only in its relationship to her.” - The Sorrows of Young Werther, J. W. Goethe

“I’m thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.” - Letters to Milena, Franz Kafka

“I want to fill my mouth with your name. I want to eat you whole.” - Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, Pablo Neruda

[derangedrhythms]

Let the winds of autumn rise and come in storms over the black moors! Let the torrent roar through the forest and the tempest howl in the crowns of the oaks and the moon show her changing face in pallor through the breaking cloud—

Ossian, quoted in ‘The Sorrows of Young Werther’ by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, tr. David Constantine

[outstanding-quotes]

I don’t think of you. You are always present in my soul.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

[macrolit]

The Sorrows of Young Werther, Goethe This is 1 of 12 vintage paperback classics that comprise our current giveaway.

[illustration-alcove]

Gary Kelley’s illustrations for Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s The Sorrows of Young Werther.

[bigmommycommie]

fully embracing the romantic hero inside of me (pathetic and full of anguish)

[whitepawnchess]

Pobre werther,

Quem diz que ninguém nunca morreu de amor não te conhece, por isso é infeliz. Você que amou com a intensidade de um sol e como Ícaro suas asas se derreteram. E sua história serve também de aviso aos românticos desavisados, aos que amam com intensidade. Cuidado ao amar demais isso pode ser motivo de ruína, você que ama deve se perguntar, deveria eu então amar de menos? Ora não de forma alguma, isso seria bobagem e pequenes de espirito, deves apenas amar, sim apenas amar de forma tão simples quanto se escreve, que em quatro letras carrega tanto significado. Amar de forma simples e descomplicada, sem grandes percausos. É este o conselho que posso dar à você caro amigo que tanto me ensinou