Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The Convivial Book - Can The Koran From Eternity Be?

'Tis worth not a thought! Can the Koran a creation, then, be? Of that, I know nought! Yet that the book of all books it must be, I believe, as a Mussulman ought. That from Eternity wine, though, must be, I ever have thought; That 'twas ordain'd, ere the Angels, to be, As a truth may be taught. Drinkers, however these matters may be, Gaze on God's face, fearing nought.