For me as a Slav, Goethe's verses are one of the few German texts that actually sound elegant, soft, somehow rich in texture... I speak and read German, but mo

For me as a Slav, Goethe's verses are one of the few German texts that actually sound elegant, soft, somehow rich in texture... I speak and read German, but most German texts feel "cold and abrasive" to me. It is a language with very hard edges, so to say.