Poetry Quote by Friedrich Schlegel Download Open image ““Poetry should forever be becoming and never perfected.”” — Friedrich Schlegel ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Poetry
“A poet knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
“If anything can be said in prose, then poetry should be saved for saying nothing.” — Pierre Albert-Birot Copy Share Image
“no poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.” — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
“industry and utility are the angels of death who, with fiery swords, prevent man's return to Paradise.” — Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
“The bourgeois man is first and foremost fashioned and turned into a machine. He is happy even if he has become only a number… — Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
“Die Blüten aller Dinge jeglicher Art flicht Poesie in einen leichten Kranz und so nennt und reimt auch Wilhelmine Gegenden, Zeiten, Begebenheiten, Personen, Spielwerke… — Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
“A classical work of literature can never be completely understood. But those who are educated and educating themselves must always desire to learn more… — Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
“philosophy of art usually lacks one of two things: either the philosophy or the art” — Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
“Really, we shouldn't neglect the study of idleness so criminally, but make it into an art and a science, even into a religion!” — Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
The name Phenomenal Woman was inspired by Maya Angelo, who wrote 'Phenomenal Woman', a favorite poem of mine. — Meena Harris Copy Share Image
A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. — David Hare Copy Share Image
“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“In the streets, the children scream, the lovers cried, and the poets dreamed,” he crooned, putting down the metal grill tongs to take my… — Alexandria Clarke Copy Share Image
Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
You don’t read or overhear the voice in the poem, you are the voice in the poem. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
