The Whole History Of Modern Poetry Is

The French Revolution, Fichte's Theory Of Knowledge, And Goethe's Wilhelm Meister Are The Three Greatest Tendencies Of The Age. Whoever Takes Offence At This Combination, And Whoever Does Not Consider A Revolution Important Unless It Is Blatant And Palpable, Has Not Yet Risen To The Lofty And Broad Vantage Point Of The History Of Mankind.

All Thinking Of The Religious Man Is Etymological, A Reduction Of All Concepts To The Original Intuition, To The Characteristic.

From What The Moderns Want, We Must Learn What Poetry Should Become; From What The Ancients Did, What Poetry Must Be.

Novels Are The Socratic Dialogues Of Our Time. Practical Wisdom Fled From School Wisdom Into This Liberal Form.

The Surest Method Of Being Incomprehensible Or, Moreover, To Be Misunderstood Is To Use Words In Their Original Sense; Especially Words From The Ancient Languages.