Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Quote

Romantic poetry … recognizes as its first commandment that the will of the poet can tolerate no law above itself.


Philosophical Fragments, P. Firchow, trans. (1991) § 116


Romantic poetry … recognizes as its first commandment that the will of the poet can tolerate no law above itself.

Romantic poetry … recognizes as its first commandment that the will of the poet can tolerate no law above itself.

Romantic poetry … recognizes as its first commandment that the will of the poet can tolerate no law above itself.

Romantic poetry … recognizes as its first commandment that the will of the poet can tolerate no law above itself.