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August Wilhelm von Schlegel was a German poet, critic, and translator, whose work significantly influenced German literature. Born on September 8, 1767, and dying on May 12, 1845, Schlegel's contributions to the Romantic movement were substantial.

Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature

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Art Individual Particular Contrary Manifest Destined

Author:August Wilhelm von Schlegel

“What a conception of art must those theorists have who exclude portraits from the proper province of the fine arts! It is exactly as if we denied that to be poetry in which the poet celebrates the woman he really loves. Portraiture is the basis and the touchstone of historic painting.”

Ifs Art Painting Poet Fine Bases Celebrate Conception Denied Portraits Historic Fine Arts Provinces Theorists Touchstones Portraiture

Author:August Wilhelm von Schlegel

“Authorship is, according to the spirit in which it is pursued, an infamy, a pastime, a day-labor, a handicraft, an art, a science, a virtue.”

Art Spirit Virtue Labor Pursued Authorship Pastime Infamy Handicrafts

Author:August Wilhelm von Schlegel

“Formerly it was the fashion to preach the natural; now it is the ideal. People too often forget that these things are profoundly compatible; that in a beautiful work of imagination the natural should be ideal, and the ideal natural.”

People Should Beautiful Imagination Natural Forget Fashion Ideals Preaching Compatible

Author:August Wilhelm von Schlegel

“The thinker requires exactly the same light as the painter, clear, without direct sunshine, or blinding reflection, and, where possible, from above.”

Light Clear Reflection Direct Painter Sunshine Thinker

Author:August Wilhelm von Schlegel

“Egotism erects its center in itself; love places it out of itself in the axis of the universal whole. Love aims at unity, egotismat solitude. Love is the citizen ruler of a flourishing republic, egotism is a despot in a devastated creation.”

Love Whole Love Is Creation Self Love Citizens Solitude Universal Aim Unity Republic Rulers Egotism Flourishing Devastated Axes Despots

Author:August Wilhelm von Schlegel

“In actual life, every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.”

Firsts Inspiration Faith Steps Enterprise Actual Life

Author:August Wilhelm von Schlegel

“Literature is the immortality of speech.”

Literature Speech Immortality

Author:August Wilhelm von Schlegel

“Our mind has its own ideal time, which is no other but the consciousness of the progressive development of our beings.”

Mind Consciousness Development Ideals Progressive

Book:Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature

Source: Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature

About the Author

Born: September 8, 1767
Died: May 12, 1845
Known for: Poet
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