Poetry is the universal art of the spirit which has become free in itself and which is not tied down for its realization to external sensuous material; instead, it launches out exclusively in the inner space and the inner time of ideas and feelings.


Introduction to Aesthetics (1842), translated by T. M. Knox, (1979)


Poetry is the universal art of the spirit which has become free in itself and which is not tied down for its realization to external sensuous...

Poetry is the universal art of the spirit which has become free in itself and which is not tied down for its realization to external sensuous...

Poetry is the universal art of the spirit which has become free in itself and which is not tied down for its realization to external sensuous...

Poetry is the universal art of the spirit which has become free in itself and which is not tied down for its realization to external sensuous...