“Poetry should describe itself, and always be simultaneously poetry and the poetry of poetry.”
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Famous Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Quotes
“Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.”
“Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.”
“Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.”
“Mysteries are feminine; they like to veil themselves but still want to be seen and divined.”
“What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best.”
“How many authors are there among writers? Author means originator.”
“Novels tend to end as the Paternoster begins: with the kingdom of God on earth.”
“Publication is to thinking as childbirth is to the first kiss.”
“The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary.”
“What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.”