Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Quotes

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.

- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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