Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • 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?

  • Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.

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

  • From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become from what the ancients did, what poetry must be.

  • He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.