An Age of Expectation
GA 156/1914-10-07/p008
·1914-10-07
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We know that Goethe had to resort to these traditional Christian ecclesiastical forms, that he had to clothe the soul's passage into the supersensible world in these forms. But we also know that he had a yearning for what we are trying to express in new forms today, in forms that are appropriate for our time.
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