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.
From Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.
Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.
Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.
All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity.
Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.
No idea is isolated, but is only what it is among all ideas.
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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