22 April 2021

Wilhelm Dilthey ~ Thursday, April 22, 2021

Fragments for a Poetics (1907 - 1908)

Translated by Rudolf A. Makkreel

The Lived Experience of the Poet

He has a great capacity for suffering. He becomes engrossed in this suffering and fashions it into a lasting mood. Precisely because of this he is able to liberate others by allowing suffering to be resolved in tranquility. (p. 227) ~ Wilhelm Dilthey

Wilhelm Dilthey
Selected Works
Volume V

Poetry and Experience
Rudolf A. Makkreel
and Frithjof Rodi, Editors

Princeton University Press
Princeton, New Jersey
Copyright ©️ 1985

All Rights Reserved