Goethe

No matter how drunk you were, Goethe was a poet!

Goethe claimed, "one who cannot speak foreign languages does not know one's own language either".

Goethe considered himself a happy man and reported being happy for three weeks in his life.

Goethe used this idiom. Why, then, should it be incorrect today?

Goethe, the German poet, about Hafez, the Iranian poet: May the whole world fade away, Hafez, with you, with you alone I want to compete! Let us share pleasure and pain like twins to love like you, to drink like you, this shall be my pride, my life.”

Goethe wrote "Faust", Voltaire "Candide", and Machado de Assis wrote "Dom Casmurro".

German is sometimes called Goethe’s language.

Goethe was a great poet.

Goethe investigated all nuances of love.

He was a contemporary of Goethe.