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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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About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy. ↗

— 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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Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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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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He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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