Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Quotes


I have expressed some ideas that point to the center; I have saluted the dawn in my way, from my point of view. He who knows the way should do the same, in his way, and from his point of view.


Citations

Schlegel, Karl Wilhelm Friedrich. Friedrich Schlegel's Lucinde and the Fragments. Translated by Peter Firchow, University of Minnesota Press, 1971, p. 255.

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Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Born: March 10, 1772
  • Died: January 12, 1829
  • Nationality: German
  • Profession: Poet

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich (after 1814: von) Schlegel was a German poet, literary critic, philosopher, philologist, and Indologist. With his older brother, August Wilhelm Schlegel, he was one of the main figures of Jena Romanticism.