Liberation Through Restriction

Goethe, as quoted in: Emil Ludwig, Goethe: The History of a Man, tr. Ethel Colburn Mayne (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1928), p. 136:

To live within limits, to want one thing, or a very few things, very much and love them very dearly, cling to them, survey them from every angle, become one with them—that is what makes the poet, the artist, the human being.