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Quote by Nicolai Hartmann
English (Source)
The artist is given to intuit ideas and show others what he has intuited. Undoubtedly, not all intuited ideas (eg human ideals) become guidance for contemporaries; but there are always such ideas that acquire this role... This is most valid, without a doubt, about the poet. In the times when the higher ethos of a people begins to form, the poets - that is, the epic poets - are always the ones who place before their eyes the ideal image of man and the virtue, which is to determine him, with which he must it is measured and with which, in fact, it is measured. They are the true educators and shapers of whole successions of generations...