Quotes by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory.

Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.

Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.

Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.