“Whatever can be done while poetry and philosophy are separated has been done and accomplished. So the time has come to unite the two.”

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Was sich thun lässt, so lange Philosophie und Poesie getrennt sind, ist gethan und vollendet. Also ist die Zeit nun da, beyde zu vereinigen.
“Ideas,” Lucinde and the Fragments, P. Firchow, trans. (1991), § 108

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