Friedrich Schiller on Valentine's Day
1759–1805 Germany
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Love is only known by him who hopelessly persists in love.
The dictates of the heart are the voice of fate.
What is life without the radiance of love?
Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.
Only through Beauty's morning gate, dost thou enter the land of Knowledge.
They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.
It is through beauty that we arrive at freedom.
O that it might remain eternally green,
The beautiful time of youthful love.
That is the lot of the beautiful on earth.
In days of yore [in ancient Greece] nothing was sacred but the beautiful.
It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.
In the smallest cot there is room enough for a loving pair.
I have enjoyed earthly happiness,
I have lived and loved.
Welcome, all ye myriad creatures!
Brethren, take the kiss of love!
Thus Arm in Arm with thee I dare defy my century into the lists.
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Friedrich Schiller (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.