Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on Poetry about love

“In einem Augenblick gewährt die Liebe Was Mühe kaum in langer Zeit erreicht. Love grants in a moment What toil can hardly achieve in an age.”

“Man liebt an dem Mädchen was es ist, Und an dem Jüngling was er ankündigt. Girls we love for what they are; Young men for what they promise to be.”