“Schiller's blank verse is bad. He moves it as a fly in a glue bottle. His thoughts have their connection and variety, it is true, but there is no sufficiently corresponding movement in the verse. How different from Shakespeare's endless rhythms! … There is a nimiety — a too-muchness — in all Germans. It is the national fault. Lessing had the best notion of blank verse. The trochaic termination of German words renders blank verse in that language almost impracticable.”
“Art is the daughter of freedom.”
Friedrich Schiller
“Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.”
Friedrich Schiller
“There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair.”
Friedrich Schiller
“Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.”
Friedrich Schiller
“Mankind is made great or little by its own will.”
Friedrich Schiller