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For those interested, someone has replied to me with the origin of the
Goethe couplet. Apparently it is actually an "inventive paraphrase" from a "very
free translation" of Faust. Check the URL below for the
scoop.
_______________________________________________________________________ Barry Lia \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ Seattle WA
… while I was running a web search
to find out more about the origins of the quote attributed to Goethe about
"genius, power and magic", and I noticed you were wondering what the origins
were of Goethe’s couplet at the end of the longer quote. I had the long form of
that quote on a poster on my wall for years, and I thought I dimly remembered
once finding out that Goethe didn’t write the whole thing, only the couplet at
the end. Anyway, the page from the biodynamics list
which displayed your query came up as a search result, along with another page
which discussed its origins in detail. So I thought I'd send you the link to
that page. (Ain't the
web grand?) http://www.humanities.uci.edu/tpsaine/Commitment.htm |
