Johann Wolfgang von Goethe “Superstition is the poetry of life.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe “Superstition is the poetry of life.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Related Quotes “Science arose from poetry… when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe “Personality is everything in art and poetry.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe “Wine is bottled poetry.” -Robert Louis Stevenson “Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.” -Plato “I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.” -Socrates “What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe “Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe “Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe “This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe “He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe