Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel - Poetry Quotes

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Poetry can be criticized only through poetry. A critique which itself is not a work of art, either in content as representation of the necessary impression in the process of creation, or through its beautiful form and in its liberal tone in the spirit of the old Roman satire, has no right of citizenship in the realm of art.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

The romantic poetry is a progressive universal poetry.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

If you want to penetrate into the heart of physics, then let yourself be initiated into the mysteries of poetry.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Whatever can be done while poetry and philosophy are separated has been done and accomplished. So the time has come to unite the two.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

You wanted to destroy philosophy and poetry in order to make room for religion and morality.

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