![]() Moreover we cannot be satisfied with a vulgar, photographic exactness of experimental photoqraphv. ![]() ![]() It is impossible to communicate in any words whatsoever the idea of such symbolic characters, for words only define and restrict thought, but symbols express the unrestricted aspect of truth. Sancho Panza and Faust, Don Quixote and Hamlet, Don Juan and Falstaff, according to the words of Goethe, are "schwankende Gestalten."Īpparitions which haunt mankind, sometimes repeatedly from age to age, accompany mankind from generation to generation. Symbolism makes the very style, the very artistic substance of poetry inspired, transparent, illuminated throughout like the delicate walls of an alabaster amphora in which a flame is ignited.Ĭharacters can also serve as symbols. ![]() “A thought expressed is a falsehood." In poetry what is not said and yet gleams through the beauty of the symbol, works more powerfully on the heart than that which is expressed in words. ![]()
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