Quotes about Goethe's reading:

1. Reading a good book is talking to many noble people.

2. Experienced people use two eyes to read. One eye sees the words on the paper, and the other eye sees the back of the paper.

3. A person not only relies on everything he is born with, but also relies on everything he gets from learning to cultivate himself.

Based on his correct and profound understanding of the aesthetic relationship between literature and art and reality, Goethe always warned writers to "face reality" and be good at absorbing creative materials from the vast ocean of life.

Goethe’s thirst for knowledge was very strong. He extended his spiritual tentacles to all areas of human knowledge and all means of understanding the external world.

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Goethe’s full name is Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, a famous German thinker, writer, and scientist. He is the most famous representative of Weimar classicism. . As a creator of poetry, drama, and prose, he is one of the greatest German writers.

Goethe pointed out that when a writer enters the creative process based on feeling and experiencing life, he should start from grasping individual things in life. He believes that the grasp and description of individual things is the life of literature and art.

He believes that artists should express the life they are familiar with. Goethe took a macroscopic look at human literary creation and concluded that "the whole world is his subject matter," and "there is no real subject matter that cannot be incorporated into poetry or is not poetic."

Goethe published the drama "Getz von Burlichingen" in 1773, which has since become famous in the German literary world. In 1774, he published "The Sorrows of Young Werther", which made him even more famous. Goethe completed "Faust" in 1831 and died in Weimar the following year.

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