"Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine."
-Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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"Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.“
-Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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"Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry."
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-Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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"A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory."
-Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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"What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures."
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"Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility."
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-Willie Stargell
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"Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!"
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"There were no temples or shrines among us save those of nature."
-Charles Eastman
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