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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. ”

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Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.

~ Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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

~ Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.

~ Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.

~ Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel