When I'm working with German audiences, I will call on my Rilke and Goethe in the original.

Ein Teil von jener Kraft, die stets das Böse will und stets das Gute schafft.

-Goethe-

„Was glänzt ist für den Augenblick geboren; Das Echte bleibt der Nachwelt unverloren.

He's the only person I know who read all 42 volumes of the works of Goethe in German and he read them all twice,

Des Menschen Kraft, im Dichter offenbart
The human power is revealed by poet
Il potere dell'umanità si rivela nel poeta

Sometimes you have to make a complete disaster of your life in such an epic way that it will be absolutely clear to you what you've been doing.