“Whoever hasn’t yet arrived at the clear realization that there might be a greatness existing entirely outside his own sphere and for which he might have absolutely no feeling; whoever hasn’t at least felt obscure intimations concerning the approximate location of this greatness in the geography of the human spirit: that person either has no genius in his own sphere, or else he hasn’t been educated to the level of the classic.”

Lucinde and the Fragments, P. Firchow, trans. (1991), “Critical Fragments,” § 36

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German poet, critic and scholar 1772–1829

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