Love Quotes by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

10 Love quotes by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Schlegel’s Romantic‑era musings on love blend philosophy with lyricism. This brief set of ten excerpts offers a taste of his intense, often paradoxical, view of affection—perfect for readers who appreciate a historical literary flavor.

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A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.

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I can no longer say my love and your love; they are both alike in their perfect mutuality.

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A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.

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He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.

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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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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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That which reminds us of nature and thus stimulates a feeling for the infinite abundance of life is beautiful. Nature is organic,and…

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Genius is, to be sure, not a matter of arbitrariness, but rather of freedom, just as wit, love, and faith, which once…

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The most important thing in love is the sense for one another, and the highest thing the faith in one another. Devotion…

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True love should be, according to its origin, entirely arbitrary and entirely accidental at the same time; it should seem both necessary…

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

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

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