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 concisedefinitiondetermine share on social
Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel artdepthdivine Change image and share on social
Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel deptheducationfind Change image and share on social
Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel attractivebeautysimultaneously Change image and share on social
Kant introduced the concept of the negative into philosophy. Would it not also be worthwhile to try to introduce the concept of the positive into philosophy? Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel conceptintroducekant Change image and share on social
The historian is a prophet looking backward. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel backwardhistorianprophet Change image and share on social
An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel artistcenterform Change image and share on social
Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel angerchildlikeconsume Change image and share on social
Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. There are few existences. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel entitleequallyexistence Change image and share on social
The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry? Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel callphilologicalphilosophical Change image and share on social
