Best quotes by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel on Poetry

Checkout quotes by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel on Poetry

• ‟ Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.

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• ‟ Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.

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• ‟ A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.

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• ‟ The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry?

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• ‟ Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.

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• ‟ One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.

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• ‟ From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be.

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• ‟ He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.

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