I enjoy here both good days and good nights. Often before dawn I am already awake, and lie down by the open window, to enjoy the splendor of the three planets, which are at present to be seen together, and to refresh myself with the increasing brilliancy of the morning-red. I then pass almost the whole day in the open air, and hold spiritual communion with the tendrils of the vine, which say good things to me, and of which I could tell you wonders. I also write poems again, which are not bad, and, if it were permitted me, I should always to remain in this situation.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Conversations with Eckermann, Sunday, June 15, 1828