Examples of using "Goethe" in a sentence and their english translations:
Goethe was a great poet.
No matter how drunk you were, Goethe was a poet!
No matter how drunk you were, Goethe was a poet!
Goethe used this idiom. Why, then, should it be incorrect today?
Goethe claimed, "one who cannot speak foreign languages does not know one's own language either".
Goethe wrote "Faust", Voltaire "Candide", and Machado de Assis wrote "Dom Casmurro".