The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ, it contains both of them in a state of high development and epitomizes both.

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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.

It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves or rather l

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

When God desires to destroy a thing he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad inst

When God desires to destroy a thing he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.

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    Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow’s dark array, – Days of absence, I am weary; She I love is far away.

    I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love.

    I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love.

    For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

    For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

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