“Our passions are, in truth, like the phoenix. When the old one burns away, the new one rises out of its ashes at once.”
More from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Poetry, dreams, desire, everything leads me to you.”
“We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.”
“The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.”
“All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.”