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Sibylle Schwartz

  • “He who would be well-traveled should journey far and wide / In the Holy Scripture. Those roads lead to blessedness. / He who would be well-traveled should journey through the Bible's books, / For the whole world can be seen there.”

    • Sibylle Schwartz,
    • 1650, in Katharina M. Wilson and Frank J. Warnke, eds., Women Writers of the Seventeenth Century ()

Sibylle Schwartz, German poet

(1621 - 1638)