The Biggest Problem With Every Art Is

The Artist Has A Twofold Relation To Nature; He Is At Once Her Master And Her Slave.

Zweck Sein Selbst Ist Jegliches Tier. Each Animal Is An End In Itself.

There Is No Better Deliverance From The World Than Through Art, And A Man Can Form No Surer Bond With It.

This World Could Not Exist If It Were Not So Simple. The Ground Has Been Tilled A Thousand Years, Yet Its Powers Remain Ever The Same; A Little Rain, A Little Sun, And Each Spring It Grows Green Again.

There Is A Great Difference, Whether The Poet Seeks The Particular For The Sake Of The General Or Sees The General In The Particular. From The Former Procedure There Ensues Allegory, In Which The Particular Serves Only As Illustration, As Example Of The General. The Latter Procedure, However, Is Genuinely The Nature Of Poetry; It Expresses Something Particular, Without Thinking Of The General Or Pointing To It.