Siegfried Unseld has selected one hundred poems from Goethe's extensive lyrical work. One hundred poems by a poet who regarded "loving" as the highest happiness and sought poetic expression for it throughout his life. These are poems that belong to the eternal treasury of poetry and have remained vibrant to this day. Nowhere in these lines is there resignation; everywhere there is acceptance of transience, and everywhere the strength of preservation and reconciliation: "Whatever life may be, it is good.".