Schiller Moves Upward. Goethe Comes From Up

The Way In Which Modern German Poetry Follows Theories Reminds Me Of Pupils Who, Scolded By Their Teacher For Their Insubordination, Justify Themselves By Saying That They Invented New Rules Of Propriety According To Which They Are Quite Well- Behaved.

Why Must Ancients, And Provided The Same Talent, Be Better Than Modern Authors? Free To Exploit The Vast Realm Of The Simpleand The Natural, They Did Not Have To Be Artificial In Order To Be Original (which Every Artist Aspires To Be).

Transcendence: That Which Transcends Experience.

It Is Open To Question Whether The Highly Individualized Characters We Find In Shakespeare Are Perhaps Not Detrimental To The Dramatic Effect. The Human Being Disappears To The Same Degree As The Individual Emerges.

The Uneducated Person Perceives Only The Individual Phenomenon, The Partly Educated Person The Rule, And The Educated Person The Exception.