Poetry Quote by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

In the ancients, one sees the accomplished letter of entire poetry: in the moderns, one has the presentiment of the spirit in becoming.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Poets in our civilization, as it exists at present, must be difficult...The poet must become more and more comprehensive, more allusive, more indirect, in…

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Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient, that it has an authority of ancient language and ancient…

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Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding.

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— Audre Lorde

The whole history of modern poetry is a continuous commentary on the short text of philosophy: every art should become science, and every science…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Poetry is the lens we use to interrogate the history we stand on and the future we stand for.

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— Edward Hirsch

“The history of man is a must read poetry.”

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What would we not give for some great poem to read now, which would be in harmony with the scenery,--for if men read aright,…

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