Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Quotes

That's why children look so beautiful because they are yet full of hope, full of dreams, and they have not yet known frustration.

Beautiful was this world, looking at it thus, without searching, thus simply, thus childlike.

The world was so beautiful when regarded like this, without searching, so simply, in such a childlike way. Moons and stas were beautiful, beautiful were bank and stream, forest and rocks, goat and gold-bug, flower and butterfly. So lovely, so delightful to go through the world this way, so like a child, awake, open to what is near, without distrust.

Paint the flying spirit of the bird rather than its feathers.

Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence.

I wish to sing of my interior visions with the naive candour of a child.

Poetry is life distilled.

Over time, naturally, you lose your innocence from gaining knowledge. You can't be innocent forever, but there's something in innocence you need to regain to be creative.

The most beautiful world is always entered through imagination.

I believe - indeed, I know - that whatever is fine and beautiful in the human expresses and asserts itself in spite of government, and not because of it.

An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.

In all this world there is nothing so beautiful as a happy child.

It's essential that a part of you not grow up. Childhood wonder gives us our spark and beauty.

Marilyn Monroe seemed to have a kind of unconscious glow about her physical self that was innocent, like a child. When she posed nude, it was 'Gee, I am kind of, you know, sort of dishy,' like she enjoyed it without being egotistical.

I dwell in Possibility A fairer house than Prose More numerous of Windows Superior — for Doors.

The world was beautiful when looked at in this way-without any seeking, so simple, so childlike.

A beautiful dress can be as exciting as a poem.

We're children. We're supposed to be childish.

The child and the great artist -- these alone receive the sensation fresh as it was at the beginning of the world.

The spirit of poetry combines the profundity of the philosopher and the child's delight in bright pictures.

Lois and Alexander are by far the most beautiful creatures in the class; their beauty is like the beauty of plants, seemingly untroubled by vanity, anxiety or effort.

My dad, a mathematician, raised me to believe that mathematics is beautiful, so math is a part of my imaginative terrain. In my late 20s I wrote several 11-line poems because I wanted to create poems that couldn't be uniformly divided into couplets, tercets, or quatrains, 11 being a prime number.

I do think that there is an innocence to people who are searching for things. It's a beautiful thing when you leave yourself vulnerable to discover anything and everything.

You can't make something beautiful by trying to make something beautiful. Something becomes beautiful in the process of trying to be something else.

You know I'm old in some ways-in others-well, I'm just a little girl. I like sunshine and pretty things and cheerfulness-and I dread responsibility.