Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Quotes

Romantic poetry … recognizes as its first commandment that the will of the poet can tolerate no law above itself.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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• Romantic poetry … recognizes as its first commandment that the will of the poet can tolerate no law above itself.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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  • Poetry
  • Romantic