Wednesday, January 27, 2021

 

Your Inheritance

Goethe, Faust, Part I, lines 682-683 (tr. Walter Kaufmann):
What from your fathers you received as heir,
Acquire if you would possess it.

Was du ererbt von deinen Vatern hast,
Erwirb es, um es zu besitzen!
See Hermann Barnstorff, "Translating and Interpreting Goethe's Faust, I, 682/3," Modern Language Notes 58.4 (April, 1943) 288-291.

These lines are inscribed on the Goethe-Schiller monument in Milwaukee, Wisconsin:

# posted by Michael Gilleland @ 12:31 PM


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