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Friedrich Rückert
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“Wie aus Duft und Glanz gemischt Du mich schufst, dir dank ich's heut.”
Friedrich Rückert (1788–1866) said by 1866 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Die Sterbende Blume, Stanza 8. Reported in Hoyt's (1922) p. 147
“What separates art from science? The gift; To it, proud knowledge must concede the crown. Scholarship certainly knows how something ought to be But it cannot create it — that you alone, art, can do.”
Friedrich Rückert (1788–1866) said by 1866 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Rückert, “Weisheit des Brahmanen,” stanza 2; reprinted in Rückerts Werke, ed. Georg Ellinger, vol. 2 (Leipzig, 1897), p. 63. Was unterscheidet Kunst von Wissenschaft? Das Koennen Dem muss der Vorrang doch das stolze Wis…
“What I offer here is not a translation; that would be superfluous. Rather, [I offer] an attempt to bring closer to us a beautiful foreign tale, through reworking it as German poetry ... I have attempted to reach this goal of nationalizing [the poem] by making the episodes stand alone, but also by dressing [them] in class-appropriate German costume, excluding everything foreign which is only understandable to us by learned means and is not immediately [understandable] through the feelings, while still retaining the local color, insofar as it does not destroy the poetic impression, but seems to strengthen it.”
Friedrich Rückert (1788–1866) said by 1866 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Suzanne L. Marchand - German Orientalism in the Age of Empire. Religion, Race, and Scholarship-Cambridge University Press (2009)