One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.
From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be.
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?
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:... →
He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.
Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.
The flame that is naturally clear always gives the most light and heat. If I could blend my talent for poetry and music into one, the light would... →
Robert Schumann
However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.
James Schuyler
Well, if this is poetry, I'm certainly never going to write any myself.