Can someone tell me from which poem these verses are?
"Das Unverfängliche gibt uns kein Gleichnis, das Unzulängliche, hier wird´s Ereignis."
I think it is from Goethe.
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Sign up to join this communityCan someone tell me from which poem these verses are?
"Das Unverfängliche gibt uns kein Gleichnis, das Unzulängliche, hier wird´s Ereignis."
I think it is from Goethe.
This is the end of Goethe's Faust II:
Alles Vergängliche
Ist nur ein Gleichnis;
Das Unzulängliche,
Hier wird's Ereignis;
Das Unbeschreibliche,
Hier ist's getan;
Das Ewig-Weibliche
Zieht uns hinan.
So the poem of Volker Braun (see Eugene Seidel's comment) plays with the famous original.