While the womanly god demands our veneration, the godlike woman kindles our love; but while we allow… — Friedrich Schiller
While the womanly god demands our veneration, the godlike woman kindles our love; but while we allow ourselves to melt in the celestial loveliness, the celestial self-sufficiency holds us back in awe.
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Live with your century; but do not be its creature. Work for your contemporaries; but create what they need, not what they praise.
No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.
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