“Just as a child is really a thing that wants to become a man, so is the poem an object of nature that wants to become an object ofart.” MenWantChildrenPoetryObjectsPoet Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“As long as the artist invents and is inspired, he remains in a constrained state of mind, at least for the purpose of communication. He then wants to say everything, which is the wrong tendency of young geniuses or the right prejudice of old bunglers. Thus, he fails to recognize the value and dignity of self-restraint, which is indeed for both the artist and the man the first and the last, the most necessary and the highest goal.” MenWantMindFirstsLongSelfStatesLastsYoungPurposeArtistValuesGoalFailingHe ManCommunicationGeniusHighestDignityPrejudiceRemainsInspiredTendenciesState Of MindRestraintSelf Restraint Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“The analytical writer observes the reader as he is; accordingly, he makes his calculation, sets his machine to make the appropriate effect on him. The synthetic writer constructs and creates his own reader; he does not imagine him as resting and dead, but lively and advancing toward him. He makes that which he had invented gradually take shape before the reader's eyes, or he tempts him to do the inventing for himself. He does not want to make a particular effect on him, but rather enters into a solemn relationship of innermost symphilosophy or sympoetry.” WantDoeEyeLiteratureImagineEffectsParticularReaderShapesMachinesAppropriateConstructsSolemnCalculationsLivelyInventingAdvancingSynthetic Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“If one writes or reads novels from the point of view of psychology, it is very inconsistent and petty to want to shy away from even the slowest and most detailed analysis of the most unnatural lusts, gruesome tortures, shocking infamy, and disgusting sensual or spiritual impotence.” IfsWantWritingSpiritualViewsNovelPsychologyPoint Of ViewLustSensualAnalysisTortureShyDisgustingShockingPettyUnnaturalInconsistentImpotenceInfamy Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“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.” KnowsWantMomentsAbleArtistGivenWishBrokenConversationFriendly Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“Mysteries are feminine; they like to veil themselves but still want to be seen and divined.” WantStillsLiteratureMysteryFeminineVeils Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be.” WantShould Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“If you want to penetrate into the heart of physics, then let yourself be initiated into the mysteries of poetry.” IfsWantHeartMysteryPhysicsPenetrate Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“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.” IfsWantMindLooksReasonLiteratureMankind Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
