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.
I am very attracted by bad taste-it is a lot more exciting than that supposed good taste which is nothing more than a standardized way of looking at things.
What I really like is an intelligent review. It doesn't have to be positive. A review that has some kind of insight, and sometimes people say something that's startling or is so poignant.
And from that time on I bathed in the Poem Of the Sea, star-infused and churned into milk, Devouring the green azures; where, entranced in pallid flotsam, A dreaming drowned man sometimes goes down.
It's the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
It is a great difficulty and a great necessity to have to start with the smallest.
Every natural action is graceful.
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