Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The fate of the architect is the strangest of all. How often he expends his whole soul, his whole heart and passion, to

The fate of the architect is the strangest of all. How often he expends his whol — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The fate of the architect is the strangest of all. How often he expends his whole soul, his whole heart and passion, to produce buildings into which he himself may never enter.

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