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"Our aesthetics," says Goethe, "speak a great deal of poetical or antipoetical subjects; fundamentally there is no subject that has not its poetry; it is for the poet to find it there."

From Aesthetical Essays of Frederich Schiller by Schiller, Friedrich

This, as I said above, expresses most happily how antipoetical is this state of mind.

From Woman in the Ninteenth Century and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition and Duties, of Woman. by Fuller, Margaret