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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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Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.
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It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.
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In true prose everything must be underlined.
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Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center.
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In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.
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It is as deadly for a mind to have a system as to have none. Therefore it will have to decide to combine both.
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What men are among the other formations of the earth, artists are among men.
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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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Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.
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A classical work doesn't ever have to be understood entirely. But those who are educated and who are still educating themselves must desire to learn more and more from it.
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There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.
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The main thing is to know something and to say it.
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Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.
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Virtue is reason which has become energy.
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The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary.
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Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.
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