The instruction
which the true artist gives us
opens the mind;
for where words fail him,
the deed speaks.

Des echten Künstlers Lehre
schließt den Sinn auf;
denn wo die Worte fehlen,
spricht die Tat.

-Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship, Book 7, Chap 9
Translation by Goethe Global based on translation by Thomas Carlyle.

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