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Nothing truly convincing – which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill – has been written against the ancients as yet especially not against their poetry.
Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.
A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.
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?
Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.
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.
God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?
Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.
He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.