In the ancients, one sees the accomplished letter of entire poetry: in the moderns, one has the presentiment of the spirit in… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Without poetry, religion becomes obscure, false, and malignant; without philosophy, licentious in all wantonness, and lascivious to the point of self-castration. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Just as a child is really a thing that wants to become a man, so is the poem an object of nature… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
In every good poem everything must be both deliberate and instinctive. That is how the poem becomes ideal. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
With respect to ingenious subconsciousness, I think, philosophers might well rival poets. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
The life and vigor of poetry consists of the fact that it steps out of itself, tears out a section of religion,… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Poetry and philosophy are, according to how you take them, different spheres, different forms, or factors of religion. Try to really combine… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
In many a poetic work, one gets here and there, instead of representation merely a title indicating that this or that was… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
The whole history of modern poetry is a continuous commentary on the short text of philosophy: every art should become science, and… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
There is so much poetry, and yet nothing is more rare than a poetic work. This is what the masses make out… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Since poetry is infinitely valuable, I do not understand why it should be more valuable than this or that which is also… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Poetry can be criticized only through poetry. A critique which itself is not a work of art, either in content as representation… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
If one believes philosophers, then what we call religion is only a deliberately popularized or an instinctively artless philosophy. Poets seem to… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Where philosophy ends, poetry must commence. There should not be a common point of view, a natural manner of thinking which standsin… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
There are ancient and modern poems which breathe, in their entirety and in every detail, the divine breath of irony. In such… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
The symmetry and organization of history teaches us that mankind, during its existence and development, genuinely was and became an individual, a person. In… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share
Both in their origins and effects, boredom and stuffy air resemble each other. They are usually generated whenever a large number of people gather… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share
Every good man progressively becomes God. To become God, to be man, and to educate oneself, are expressions that are synonymous. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share
The naive is what is or appears to be natural, individual, or classical to the point of irony or to the point of continuous… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share
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 Copy Share
In every good poem everything must be both deliberate and instinctive. That is how the poem becomes ideal. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share
Only he who possesses a personal religion, an original view of infinity, can be an artist. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share
Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share
Where philosophy ends, poetry must commence. There should not be a common point of view, a natural manner of thinking which standsin contrast to… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share
Life is writing. The sole purpose of mankind is to engrave the thoughts of divinity onto the tablets of nature. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share
Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share
Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share
When the author has no idea of what to reply to a critic, he then likes to say: you could not do it better… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share
One mentions many artists who are actually art works of nature. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share
