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Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Age: 57 †
Born: 1772
Born: January 1
Died: 1829
Died: January 11
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The life of the artist should be distinguished from that of all other people, even in external habits. They are Brahmins, a higher caste, not ennobled by birth, however, but through deliberate self-initiation.
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The obsession with moderation is the spirit of castrated narrow-mindedness.
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Wit is absolutely sociable spirit or aphoristic genius.
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Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet especially not against their poetry.
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Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit.
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Just as the Romans were the only nation that was truly a nation, so our age is the first genuine age.
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What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.
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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 of the necessary impression in the process of creation, or through its beautiful form and in its liberal tone in the spirit of the old Roman satire, has no right of citizenship in the realm of art.
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If you want to penetrate into the heart of physics, then let yourself be initiated into the mysteries of poetry.
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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 there can be no reason without spirit.
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Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.
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It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.
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No idea is isolated, but is only what it is among all ideas.
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The highest good and solely useful is liberal education.
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Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.
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Is it not superfluous to write more than one novel if the writer has not become, say, a new man? Obviously, all the novels of an author not infrequently belong together and are to a certain degree only one novel.
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Even a friendly conversation which cannot be at any given moment be broken off voluntarily with complete arbitrariness has something illiberal about it. An artist, however, who is able and wants to express himself completely, who keeps nothing to himself and would wish to say everything he knows, is very much to be pitied.
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There is so much poetry, and yet nothing is more rare than a poetic work. This is what the masses make out of poetical sketches, studies, aphorisms, trends, ruins, and raw material.
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When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics.
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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.
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