Quotes by Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock

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The essence of poetry consists in the fact that it, with the help of language, shows a certain number of objects, which we know or whose existence we suspect, looking at them from the perspective that engages the choicest powers of our soul, to such an extent that so high that hatred acts on the other and thus sets the whole soul in motion...

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The deepest secrets of poetry lie in the fact that it sets our soul into action. Indeed, action is the essential condition of our pleasure. Common poets want us to vegetate together with them.