Die Meistersinger Von

Famous quotes containing the words die and/or von:

“Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)

“Everything perfect in its kind has to transcend its own kind, it must become something different and incomparable. In some notes the nightingale is still a bird; then it rises above its class and seems to suggest to every winged creature what singing is truly like.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)