#poe

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. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#family #fully #look #mankind #minds

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

#arts #logic #mathematics #music #philosophy

Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#been #convincing #especially #nothing #poetry

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

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#much #only #philosophy #poetry

Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#nonsensical #poem #poetic #probably #science

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

#philological #philosophical #poetic #poetry #rhetorical

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

#depth #education #found #mankind #our

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it. ↗

— Olive Schreiner

#always #color #flower #god #love

Why should the composer be more guilty than the poet who warms to fantasy by a strange flame, making an idea that inspires him the subject of his own very different treatment? ↗

— Franz Schubert

#different #fantasy #flame #guilty #him

I do not usually revise much, though I often cut, particularly the end or toward the end of a poem. ↗

— James Schuyler

#end #i #i do #much #often