“He who would write heroic poems should make his whole life a heroic poem.”
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher
Life of Schiller.
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“A poem should be a part of one's sense of life.”
Opus Posthumous (1955), Adagia
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