meanwhile , at a chekhov - goethe festival held recent in moscow to observe the poets ' birthdays ( this year is goethe ' s 250th ) , dmitri prigov , a post - conceptual poet and conceptual artist , borrowed the first line from " eugene " ( " my mother - high ideals help him " ) and set it to buddhist and arab mantras and russian orthodox and roman melodies .
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born in Germany.