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.
    - Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.
    - Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • 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.
    - Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • 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?
    - Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.
    - Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.
    - Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be.
    - Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.
    - Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel