Form Quotes by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

9 Form quotes by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel offers nine brief observations on form, highlighting his nuanced view of structure in art and literature.

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Gracefulness is a correct life: sensuality which contemplates and forms itself.

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Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy.

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Original love never appears in pure form, but in manifold veils and shapes, such as confidence, humility, reverence, serenity, asfaithfulness and modesty,…

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Poetry and philosophy are, according to how you take them, different spheres, different forms, or factors of religion. Try to really combine…

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Every form of life is in its origin not natural, but divine and human; for it must spring from love, just as…

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A genuinely free and educated man should be able to tune himself, as one tunes a musical instrument, absolutely arbitrarily, at his…

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What do the few existing mystics still do? -- They more or less mold the raw chaos of already existing religion. But…

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Poetry can be criticized only through poetry. A critique which itself is not a work of art, either in content as representation…

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There are ancient and modern poems which breathe, in their entirety and in every detail, the divine breath of irony. In such…

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Every good man progressively becomes God. To become God, to be man, and to educate oneself, are expressions that are synonymous.

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The naive is what is or appears to be natural, individual, or classical to the point of irony or to the point of continuous…

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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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In every good poem everything must be both deliberate and instinctive. That is how the poem becomes ideal.

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Only he who possesses a personal religion, an original view of infinity, can be an artist.

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Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.

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Where philosophy ends, poetry must commence. There should not be a common point of view, a natural manner of thinking which standsin contrast to…

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Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.

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Life is writing. The sole purpose of mankind is to engrave the thoughts of divinity onto the tablets of nature.

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Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene…

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

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When the author has no idea of what to reply to a critic, he then likes to say: you could not do it better…

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One mentions many artists who are actually art works of nature.

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