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Quotes by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
- A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.
- A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.
- A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory.
- A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.
- All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by two. So it is, was, and shall be.
- An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.
- Art and works of art do not make an artist sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.
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