WorkJohann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Was kann der Mensch im Leben mehr gewinnen" (poem, from the Werke; this is the poem beginning with these words, which Fuller quotes as her proposed motto)”

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Notes toward The Life of Goethe

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“p32: 'Motto à moi- à present / "Was kann der Mensch im Leben / mehr gewinnen / Als dass sich Gott-Natur ihm / offenbare?”

Fuller, Margaret. "Notes toward The Life of Goethe." Houghton Library, Harvard University.