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30 12, 2015

Times old and new: “objective” creative engagement vs. “subjective” inward regression

By |2016-11-02T11:52:45-04:00December 30th, 2015|2015, Arts, December, Europe, Everything Else, History, Literature, Quotes|0 Comments

"As long as poets express merely their puny subjective impressions, they are not worth the name; but as soon as they know how to appropriate and express the world, they are poets. For then they are inexhaustible and can be constantly new, as opposed to a subjective nature, which quickly expresses its meagre inner life [...]

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