Friedrich Schiller
People best know long didactic poems and historical plays, such as
Don Carlos
(1787) and
William Tell
(1804), of leading romanticist German poet, dramatist, and historian Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller.
This philosopher and dramatist struck up a productive if complicated friendship with already famous and influential Johann Wolfgang von Goethe during the last eighteen years of his life and encouraged Goethe to finish works that he left merely as sketches; they greatly discussed issues concerning aesthetics and thus gave way to a period, now referred to as classicism of Weimar. They also worked together on
Die Xenien
(
The Xenies
), a collection of short but harsh satires that verbally attacked perceived enemies of their aesthetic agenda.
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“Празните думи не облекчават сърцата.”
“In the case of the creative mind, it seems to me, the intellect has withdrawn its watchers from the gates, and the ideas rush in pell-mell, and only then does it review and inspect the multitude. You worthy critics, or whatever you may call yourselves, are ashamed or afraid of the momentary and passing madness which is found in all real creators, the longer or shorter duration of which distinguishes the thinking artist from the dreamer. Hence your complaints of unfruitfulness, for you reject too soon and discriminate too severely.”
“Death is not too high a price for this—This taste of heaven—”
“All powerful souls have kindred with each other.”
“Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.”
“Dem Mimen flicht die Nachwelt keine Kränze.”
“The dignity of mankind is in your hands; protect it!It sinks with you! With you it will ascend.”
“Liebe Kennt der allein, der ohne Hoffnung liebt.”
“We shall be free, just as our fathers were.”
“Curious,' the Prince continued, after a deep silence, 'is it possible never to have known something, never to have missed it in its absence -- and a few moments later to live in and for that single experience alone? Can a single moment make a man so different from himself? It would be just as impossible for me to return to the joys and wishes of yesterday morning as it would for me to return to the games of childhood, now that I have seen that object, now that her image dwells here -- and I have this living, overpowering feeling within me: from now on you can love nothing other than her, and in this world nothing else will ever have any effect on you.”
“Every true genius is bound to be naive.”
“Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish play.”
“hidup yang tak dipertaruhkan, tak akan pernah dimenangkan”
“Die rohen Kraftbrühen der Natur sind Ihro Gnaden zartem Makronenmagen noch zu hart. - Er muss sie erst in der höllischen Pestilenzküche der Bellatristen künstlich aufkochen lassen. Ins Feuer mit dem Quark.”
“Wenn ich bei dir bin, zerschmilzt meine Vernunft in einen Blick - in einen Traum von dir, wenn ich weg bin.”
“Wenn es immer nach deinem Kopf ginge, du kröchest dein Leben lang im Staub." - "Immer noch besser, als ich kröch um den Thron herum.”
“Did you think the lion was sleeping because he didn't roar?”