sometimes misattributed to
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832) and by
Marianne von Willemer (1784 - 1860)
Nimmer will ich dich verlieren!
Liebe gibt der Liebe Kraft.
Magst du meine Jugend zieren
Mit [gewalt'ger]1 Leidenschaft.
Ach! Wie schmeichelts meinem Triebe,
Wenn man meinen Dichter preist:
Denn das Leben ist die Liebe,
Und des Lebens Leben Geist.
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Confirmed with Goethes Briefwechsel mit Marianne von Willemer, ed. by Max Becker, Leipzig, Insel-Verlag, 1922, page XLIII, in a letter to Goethe, who published the poem under his own name for various reasons described in Goethe and His Publishers by Siegfried Unseld, translated by Kenneth J. Northcott, The University of Chicago Press, 1996, page 360, note 12.
1 Wegelius, Wolf: "gewaltiger"
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- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Line count: 8
Word count: 39
Non voglio perderti mai!
Amore dà forza all'amore.
Possa tu abbellire la mia giovinezza
con una potente passione.
Ah! quanto forte mi lusinga,
se viene ammirato il mio poeta:
poiché la vita è amore,
e lo spirito essenza della vita.