Heinrich: "You take souls for vegetables.... The gardener can decide what will become of his carrots but no one can choose the goo...d of others for them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
(Heinrich von) Kleist would not be a Prussian if his first thought would not have been orderliness ... and he would not be a Germa...n if he had not placed all his hopes of developing this inner orderliness into education. Education is the secret of life for him as for every German: studying, learning a lot from books, sitting in lectures, keeping notebooks, listening intently to professors....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
After all, poets shouldn't be their own interpreters and shouldn't carefully dissect their poems into everyday prose; that would m...ean the end of being poets. Poets send their creations into the world, it is up to the reader, the aesthetician, and the critic to determine what they wanted to say with their creations.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A leaf that is supposed to grow is full of wrinkles and creases before it develops; if one doesn't have the patience and wants the... leaf to be as smooth as a willow leaf from the start, then there is a problem.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In action, the English have the advantage enjoyed by free men always entitled to free discussion: of having a ready judgment on ev...ery question. We Germans, on the other hand, are always thinking. We think so much that we never form a judgment.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »