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None but a poet can understand a poet; none but a romantic spirit transported with poetry and consecrated in the Holy of Holies an comprehend what th… - E. T. A. Hoffmann
" "None but a poet can understand a poet; none but a romantic spirit transported with poetry and consecrated in the Holy of Holies an comprehend what the ordained utters out of his inspiration.
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About E. T. A. Hoffmann
Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann (24 January 1776 – 25 June 1822), better known by his pen name E. T. A. Hoffmann, was a German Romantic author of fantasy and horror, a jurist, composer, music critic, draftsman and caricaturist. He is the subject and hero of Jacques Offenbach's opera The Tales of Hoffmann, a fictionalized account.
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Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann
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Ernst Theodor Wilhelm. Hoffman
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Ernst Theodor Amedeus Hoffmann
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Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffman
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E.T.A. Hoffmann
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Ernst Theodor Hoffmann
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Amadeus Hoffman
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Amadeus Hoffmann
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E. T. Hoffmann
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ernst theodor amadeus hoffmann
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e. th. a. hoffmann
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Ernst Theodore Wilhelm Hoffmann
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Ernst T. A. Hoffmann
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Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann
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It may even be that, as you look more closely, to recognize the hidden seed which, born of a secret union, grows into a luxuriant plant and spreads forth into a thousand tendrils, until a single blossom, swelling to maturity, absorbs all the life-sap and kills the seed itself. [...] I came to feel that what we call simply dream and imagination might represent the secret thread that runs through our lives and links its varied facets; and that the man who thinks that, because he has perceived this, he has acquired the power to break the thread and challenge that mysterious force which rules us, is to be given up as lost.
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