There are writers in Germany who drink the Absolute like water; and there are books in which even the dogs make references to the Infinite.
Interpretation
This quote highlights the deep and pervasive influence of the concept of the Infinite in literature and writing.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel's quote suggests that the theme of the Infinite pervades literature to such an extent that it becomes a fundamental element in the works of many writers, and even the most simplistic characters, like dogs, are depicted as having a grasp of this profound idea. This points to the intertwining of the mundane with the infinite, illustrating how literary creations often reflect complex philosophical concepts.
In practice
In a discussion about the role of concepts in literature during a literature class.
Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence. Women have to remain prudish as long as men are sentimental, dense, and evil enough to demand of them eternal innocence and lack of education. For innocence is the only thing which can ennoble lack of education.
A classical work doesn't ever have to be understood entirely. But those who are educated and who are still educating themselves must desire to learn more and more from it.
If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.
He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.
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.
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.
Novelists embody plural selves all the time. What are characters, after all, if not other selves?
Everybody, no matter what vocation they're looking at, should add music as an essential to their curriculum. Music can be a very important part of your soul and your growth as a human being. It's so powerful.
Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.
Since art is a virtue of the intellect, it demands to communicate with the entire universe of the intellect. Hence it is that the normal climate of art is intelligence and knowledge: its normal soil, the civilized heritage of a consistent and integrated system of beliefs and values; its normal horizon , the infinity of human experience enlighted by the passionate insight of anguish or the intellectual virtues of a contemplative mind.
I landed a job with Roger Corman. The job was to write the English dialogue for a Russian science fiction picture. I didn't speak any Russian. He didn't care whether I could understand what they were saying; he wanted me to make up dialogue.
Poems not only demand patience, they demand a kind of surrender. You must give yourself up to them. This is the real food for a poet: other poems, not meat loaf.
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