Monday, February 15, 2021

 

Paradise

Goethe, Faust, Part II, lines 7963-7964 (tr. David Luke):
Things one was used to, they still haunt the mind;
Paradise is what one has left behind.

Man denkt an das, was man verließ,
was man gewohnt war, bleibt ein Paradies.
A more literal rendering, by Leopold J. Bernays:
People think on what they have left,—
what people are accustomed to, remains a Paradise.

# posted by Michael Gilleland @ 12:08 PM


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