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This article is about the poem by Goethe. For other uses see Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt (disambiguation).Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt (Only he who knows what yearning is) is a poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The poem appeared in Goethe’s novel Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship. It is one of the songs of Mignon a character in the novel.