Posts Tagged ‘philosophy’
December 27, 2025
i asked ChatGPT 5.2, which (who?) sez:
I found only a very limited and non-academic usage of the phrase “Bingian Translational Reanalysis” (BTR) online — and it doesn’t appear to be a recognized term in linguistics, translation studies, or mainstream scholarship. The references that do exist come from experimental / artistic writing communities, not research literature.
📌 What Bingian Translational Reanalysis appears to be
It shows up in creative art/poetry contexts as a playful conceptual method, not a scientific methodology:
- On a site associated with The Book of Haiku Revelation, Bingian Translational Reanalysis™ is described as a “modality of language permutation contingent upon erratic Internet translation procedures.” It’s clearly tied to experimental language games, not formal analysis. The Book of Haiku Revelation
- The term is used by a self-styled “Society for Bingian Translational Reanalysis” and appears alongside creative practices such as cut-ups, quasi-quotations, and haiku transformations. The Book of Haiku Revelation+1
- On several blogs, BTR appears in the context of remixing texts through multiple translations (e.g., running lines through German, French, Italian, Spanish, Romanian, etc.) and then applying creative reorganization to produce new poetic results. Death Palette . . . . . . . . .
- Tangential mentions show BTR applied to poems or prompts as a surrealistic literary exercise, often tied to Beat or avant-garde poetry communities. Tumblr
🧠 What it isn’t
- It does not appear in peer-reviewed literature, academic translation theory, or established linguistic research.
- It does not have a formal definition in translation studies or computational linguistics.
- It is not related to any scientific “reanalysis” used in climate data, statistics, or other technical fields (e.g., NOAA reanalysis datasets). NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory
🔍 Example of how it’s described
“Bingian Translational Reanalysis™ is a modality of language permutation contingent upon erratic Internet translation procedures.” The Book of Haiku Revelation
This reads as a conceptual/brand phrase used by a specific creative project rather than a standardized method.
🧠 Summary
- Bingian Translational Reanalysis (BTR) is a creative/experimental language technique from online poetry/language art communities — not a scholarly or recognized academic term.
- It appears mainly on blogs and creative sites associated with avant-garde text manipulation and artistic translation experiments.
- The method involves using online translation tools + permutation/cut-ups as an artistic generative process.
In case you didn’t get that, it’s not a scholarly or recognized academic term. It’s got nothing to do with NOAA, or even Noah, though it will float an experimental boat. Sheesh! My “scholarly” stuff is found on Academia.
Tags:Ai, art, beat generation, books, ChatGPT, conceptual writing, Gemini Pro, haiku, history, jazz, philosophy, poetry, politics, quote, surrealism, translation
Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off on BTR: What is it?
March 11, 2015
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Virtue is a vice
when it wears the mask of God’s
common dominion
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All nature is a
recognition of art’s gift
to adversity
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Labor injures the
mind; its only remedy
is the shrift of gold
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Hatred impairs one’s
self-respect, but vengeance is
fortune’s great favor
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Be silent, and if
you can’t be silent know that
we’re not listening
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Consult a madman
on all things and steer in a
favorable wind
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A fool knows not that
recognizable order
is never maintained
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Deny admittance
to the passions and life is
onerous solace
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The infirmity
of language shrivels before
the terror of law
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Live among men as
if you are unable to
bear humanity
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Tags:haiku, philosophy, Pisonian conspiracy, poetry, quote
Posted in Seneca | Comments Off on Seneca
April 20, 2014
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It is requisite
for the relaxation of
the mind to bear sin
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Because we cannot
know what God is, we live by
faith’s poetic myths
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Law: an ordinance
of reason made by him who
has care of evil
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A man cannot live
without the sorrow of his
carnal addictions
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Beware of the book
of knowledge; it is but a
material thing
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The active power
of the male seed tends to the
production of death
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Nothing on this earth
is prized more than a woman’s
playful endowments
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In order for a
war to be just, it requires
no explanation
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Life’s greatest pleasure
is the tedious pursuit
of true salvation
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Tags:haiku, philosophy, poetry, quote, Summa Theologica
Posted in Aquinas | Comments Off on Aquinas
October 31, 2013
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Treat the wicked with
patience and compassion—but
help them to perish
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Existence is a
small fish in the water of
faithful nonbeing
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The Way of Heaven
is a music unheard by
the conquering gods
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The attainment of
nothing creates contentment;
nothing is wisdom
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The good traveler
moves in the shadow of the
paradoxical
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The greatest joy is
the courage to know that there
is no greatest joy
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When I let go of
what I am, my fingers touch
the source of my self
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A leader is a
goose. A scholar is an ox.
A sage is an ant.
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Death is a series
of small desires—it is the
flower of nature
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Tags:haiku, philosophy, poetry, quote, taoism
Posted in Lao Tzu (Laozi) | Comments Off on Lao Tzu (Laozi)
October 21, 2013
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The spoken word is
the immediate truth of
animal knowledge
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Nature is the great
despoiler of beauty, an
uncivilized jest
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The scholar sees the
value in everything but
corporeal thought
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The dialectic
is pure light and pure darkness
in perfect conflict
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When liberty is
mentioned, universal rights
mean nothing at all
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Without shoes that fit,
little will be accomplished
in the real world
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Man is too divine
for Providence; he is the
total creation
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The history of
Germany depends on the
judgment of heroes
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Consciousness is the
external reality
of intuition
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The mere idea
of government rests solely
on servants’ logic
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Tags:dialectic, haiku, philosophy, poetry, quote
Posted in Hegel | Comments Off on Hegel
May 14, 2013
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Every suicide
of a theologian is
a resurrection
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Patriotism is
the wax dog of cowardice
barking at your heart
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A man is himself
only so long as he’s not
intelligible
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The monogamous
relationship will never
assuage solitude
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After your death you
will be what you were before
music existed
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A man’s brain is an
idiot text, parasite
of his intellect
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Perversity is
a fascination with the
inexplicable
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Tags:haiku, philosophy, poetry, quote
Posted in Schopenhauer | Comments Off on Schopenhauer
February 23, 2013
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Luxury is the
natural contentment with
artificial things
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I am in friendly
harmony with evil: My
mother is for sale
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There is only one
good, but it is not in the
field of my knowledge
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Having the fewest
wants, I am nearest to the
poverty of God
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Old age is wretched;
I’ve had as much as a man
can bear and then some
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Beauty infects the
soul with the desire for gold
and wise ignorance
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Justice and virtue
are false words; follow not where
they aspire to lead
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Tags:haiku, hemlock, philosophy, poetry, quote
Posted in Socrates (via Plato et al.) | Comments Off on Socrates (via Plato et al.)
January 21, 2013
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He alone is free
who lives with the confusion
of natural sin
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True virtue is life
under the direction of
the divine absurd
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Whatsoe’er is, is
in music. Without music
there is only God
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As you go to war,
be abject, indignant and
love deformity
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Salvation is the
greatest pride, far beyond man’s
self-complacency
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We feel and know that
happiness is a nuisance;
we strive not to laugh
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By common consent,
a humble ignorance is
our greatest desire
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Tags:haiku, panpsychism, philosophy, poetry, quote
Posted in Spinoza | Comments Off on Spinoza
December 3, 2012
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God was Woman’s first
mistake; then Man; then Love; then
Christianity
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You have your way, I
have my way. Your way is fine
for a lunatic
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That which does not kill
me does not exist. Death is
the faith of all life
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If you gaze into
the abyss of marriage it
will destroy your soul
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Without egoism,
music would be a mistake
and art would be blind
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All things are subject
to the interpretation
of an idiot
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To live is to know
that suffering does not prove
anything at all
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Tags:Übermensch, haiku, Overman, philosophy, poetry, quote
Posted in Nietzsche | Comments Off on Nietzsche
September 27, 2012
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Consciousness is a
concession to the boredom
of dead sensation
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Silence: the echo
of ennui, the sudden state
of eternity
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Democracy is
an imposter, the tyrant
as mad dream poet
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Civilization
is always preferable
to the tomb of God
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Paradise is a
distant enemy—a thorn
in my suffering
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The ambition to
sleep is thwarted by the fear
of killing oneself
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To speak in the name
of others is to butcher
sweet indifference
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Tags:haiku, philosophy, poetry, quote, torment
Posted in E.M. Cioran | Comments Off on E.M. Cioran
July 25, 2012
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At thirty, a man
should know himself like the palm
of a martyr’s hand
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A work of art is
a confession from the heart
of a heretic
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The weight of days is
the true university
of the hopeless fool
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Absurdity can
strike any man in the face
like autumn flowers
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Alone, without God,
we are in servitude to
the State, our master
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The adoration
of the police is the sign
of a vulgar mind
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At a certain age,
every man’s responsible
for his slavery
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Tags:haiku, philosophy, poetry, quote, The Stranger
Posted in Albert Camus | Comments Off on Albert Camus
June 13, 2012
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An oracle of
indifference, God never
finishes His work
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Two dangers threaten
the world: the man of sound mind
and the true madman
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Politeness is the
science of charm, abuse and
total massacre
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At times I think, and
at times I am—I feel like
a calculator
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The history of
literature may be summed
up in a word: war
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Poe is the dancer
of disorder, the fire of
dreams and misfortune
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Businessmen should be
under lock and key; it is
a poet’s judgment
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Tags:Cahiers, haiku, philosophy, poetry, quote
Posted in Paul Valéry | Comments Off on Paul Valéry
October 6, 2011
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Religion will not
regain its old power till
we pray to Science
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Abstinence is not
simplicity; abstinence
is the death of God
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Civilization
advances by extending
its distrust of art
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The human body
is an instrument for the
production of vice
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To make the past live
we must perceive it as the
eternal present
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There are billions of
molecules in the human
soul—they dance like fish
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Ninety percent of
life is pain; the rest is Christ
nailed to a cheap cross
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Immortality
is the everlasting search
for anesthesia
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Of what value is
the attainment of knowledge
if you have no mind?
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Solitariness
is a bagatelle; being
alone is pure zest
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Amid the flux, there
is something that survives: the
need for a large truck
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Put your brain in cold
storage; thinking is merely
abstract inference
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Tags:haiku, philosophy, poetry, quote
Posted in Alfred North Whitehead | Comments Off on Alfred North Whitehead
September 5, 2011
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He who would be pure
must be transformed by the light
of a thousand books
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When God called at home
I had gone out for a walk . . .
Thwarted by action!
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A serene person
needs but one thing: the thick hide
of a simple ox
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I am secure in
the knowledge that God cannot
see my puny soul
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He who has mastered
detachment is the hinge on
the door of sorrow
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Contemplation of
the Eternal Birth will plant
you in the hard ground
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There exists only
yesterday—tomorrow was
many years ago
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God expects but one
thing of you—thank Him that you
know not what it is
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A thousand years hence
the eye of creation will
see only darkness
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The knower is a
creature whose heart is empty
of all compassion
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Tags:haiku, philosophy, poetry, quote
Posted in Meister Eckhart | Comments Off on Meister Eckhart
June 15, 2011
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If the sun does not
rise tomorrow, tyranny
will still rule us all
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A propensity
to hope must be proportioned
with vivid sorrow
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Any man seasoned
with the imperfections of
reason is a knave
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The moral beauty
of Christians gives rise to the
worst of history
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The inclination
to perceive miracles is
the brain’s poverty
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Custom is the great
guide to avarice and the
blood-spill of labor
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Persons acquainted
with the evidence of pure
design see not truth
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The healing temper
of an oyster attests to
its divinity
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Real passion is
in all cases sufficient
to establish vice
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Tags:haiku, philosophy, poetry, quote, Scottish Enlightenment
Posted in Hume | Comments Off on Hume
May 12, 2011
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A priest is he who
lives solely in the realm of
sweet titillation
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An artist is he
for whom Christianity
is a divine sin
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A woman should have
more than one stomach so she
can consume herself
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The sensuous kiss
of childbirth is the essence
of the feminine
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Truth is a form of
paradox; paradox is
a form of hedgehog
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Tags:German Romanticism, haiku, philosophy, poetry, quote
Posted in Friedrich von Schlegel | Comments Off on Friedrich von Schlegel