Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Perhaps the late 18th century German poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe said it best when he wrote "When the dogs bark we know we are riding on horseback".

Jorge-Mario Cabrera: Dogs Bark Because We Gallop Jorge-Mario Cabrera 2011

He explains that the taproot of German Romanticism was the folk-spirit promoted by the 18th-century philosopher Johann Gottfried Herder and taken up by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

Parsing Mahler's Poetic Songs Barrymore Laurence Scherer 2011

Perhaps the late 18th century German poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe said it best when he wrote "When the dogs bark we know we are riding on horseback".

Jorge-Mario Cabrera: Dogs Bark Because We Gallop Jorge-Mario Cabrera 2011

What Mr. Gell-Mann omitted from his explanation was that, though forever jealous of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Joyce couldn't resist borrowing the ripe word "quark" from the wager scene in the opening of Goethe's "Faust" where Mephisto speaks contemptuously of humankind as insolent grasshoppers who try to leap toward heaven but always fall down and plunk their noses in the "quark."

Quarks, Quorks, Joyce and a Wake 2012

Oaxaca state' (1985) at the Aperture Foundation Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a poet, storyteller and traveler whose 1,400-page treatise "Theory of Colors" (1810) furnished Alex Webb his epigraph, "Colors are the deeds and suffering of light."

Swimming Pool, Stieglitz and Color William Meyers 2011

He told me the first writer was Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and the second one was Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Crazy Loco Love Victor Villaseñor 2010

He told me the first writer was Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and the second one was Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Crazy Loco Love Victor Villaseñor 2010

He told me the first writer was Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and the second one was Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Crazy Loco Love Victor Villaseñor 2010

One of those exemplars whom I studied, and about whom I wrote, was the great German man of letters, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe — not only a creative genius but also a splendid specimen of a human being.

Why I've Been Looking at the Greatness of Robert E. Lee 2009

The word was closely associated with the novels of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe but it was also used by Mendelssohn.

Emancipation Michael Goldfarb 2009