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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. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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If you're that hypersensitive about color and don't have a sense of humor, don't marry out of your race. ↗

— Laura Schlessinger

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God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals? ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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How many authors are there among writers? Author means originator. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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